Mentions:
1: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) Israel on the threat from Iran. - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) security forces targeting the Kurds. - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (CON - Buckingham) Friend done to challenge the dangerous and continued militarisation in Iran? - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) that country—along with China, Russia and Iran—is deeply concerning. - Speech Link
Found: its aftermath 16 International concerns about developments in Turkey 19 1.4 Conflict with Kurds
Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she will include Kurds from Iraq and Iran in the streamlined asylum process.
Answered by Robert Jenrick
From 23 February, legacy claims from nationals of Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria and Yemen will be considered through the Streamlined Asylum Process.
This is on the basis of their current high-grant rate of protection status (refugee status or humanitarian protection). All these nationalities have a grant rate of over 95% and over 100 grants of protection status in the year-ending September 2022. Please see Migration statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
Upon arrival, all asylum seekers undergo a screening interview, as well as robust security checks in which they will provide biometric information.
Separate work is ongoing to more efficiently process all other asylum claims admitted to the UK asylum system awaiting consideration. To further accelerate decision making we will further drive productivity improvements by simplifying and modernising our system. This includes measures like shortening interviews, removing unnecessary interviews, making guidance simpler and more accessible, dealing with cases more swiftly where they can be certified as manifestly unfounded (e.g. Albania) and recruiting extra decision makers.
Include Kurds from Iraq and Iran in the streamlined asylum process
- Final Signatures: 5,299
We want the Government to include Kurds from Iraq and Iran in the streamlined asylum process which already includes Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.
Found: Kurds in Iraq and Iran are facing oppression like the other countries already on the scheme.
Mentions:
1: Margaret Hodge (LAB - Barking) He hid Jews in his home in Berlin. - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (CON - Preseli Pembrokeshire) Iran has effectively declared war on the Jewish people in Israel, and we should be doing everything we - Speech Link
3: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) In the ’80s there was Saddam Hussein’s desecration of Kurds in Iraq. - Speech Link
4: Theresa Villiers (CON - Chipping Barnet) She was born in 1930 in Poland. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) concern is the use of lethal force by Iranian authorities against oppressed ethnic minorities such as the Kurds - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) He nearly died.”Others describe how minority populations, such as the Iranians Kurds and others from - Speech Link
3: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) Iran has destabilised the region for numerous years in how it treats the Kurds and in its approach to - Speech Link
4: Alicia Kearns (CON - Rutland and Melton) That is severely concerning, given that the Kurds continue to hold in their camps Daesh terrorists who - Speech Link
Found: 2022 Iran protests: Human rights and international response
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) human rights violations in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (LAB - Bethnal Green and Bow) Iran Human Rights estimates that more than 300 people, including 24 children, have been killed in Iran - Speech Link
3: Kim Johnson (LAB - Liverpool, Riverside) Does he also agree that not doing so gives cover to Turkey’s human rights abuses against Kurds living - Speech Link
I highlight the plight of the Kurds in Iran, following Mahsa Amini who died under suspicious circumstances on the 22nd of September in Tehran after being detained by the Guidance Patrol for not wearing a Hijab. https://t.co/sPNqCUEQnU
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran was a shocking reminder of the repression faced by women in Iran. - Speech Link
2: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) place to support ethnic minorities such as Kurds amid this regime crackdown. - Speech Link
3: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) We stand in solidarity with the women in Iran. - Speech Link
4: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) are when they are in custody in Iran. - Speech Link