Bitter return for deported Iraqis

Abu Bakr Ali, head of the association for migrants returning from Europe pointing at files of migrants believed to be missing or killed, at the association’s headquarters in Ranya. — AFP

IRAQI Mohammed Jalal lost 10 years of his life seeking asylum in Germany, without success. Instead of being granted refuge, he was sent back to the land he had fled.

He now faces the same challenges that drove him to leave the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq.