Seeking Aslyum

Video Documentation. A film by Aishling Muller.
Home ? Asylum Seekers & Artists Humanitarian Community Project
Collaboration with the Sabre Family 2017
The Sabre family and their daughters, Zhala who is 17 & Zhakau who is 20 are Kurdish refugees who fled Iraq. They are currently staying in Iceland. On Monday the 24th June 2017 they received a negative verdict for their request for asylum in Iceland. They are permitted one final appeal within 7 days from their verdict. If they are denied asylum they will be deported to their original port of entry in Norway. Norway will likely deport them to Iraq.
A family from Kurdistan Iraq who came to Iceland about a year ago are set to be detained on Monday, and deported to Norway the following day. From there, they will in all likelihood be sent back to Iraq, where they say they will face certain persecution and reprisals.  They will be taken into custody on July 17, and sent to Norway the next day. Norway regularly deports people fleeing Iraq back to that country, as Norwegian authorities consider the country to be safe.

You can listen to the family tell their story in their own words in this video by Aishling Muller. This work came as a response as part of the HOME? ASYLUM SEEKERS & ARTISTS humanitarian community project. It is their intention to expand our understanding of the complexity of existence for people fleeing their homelands searching safety
I did my job, but unfortunately when you do this in Iraq, you face the unexpected,
Then you have to think about your position. This is what happened to me.”
- Bejan Sabre