The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has strongly denounced new Iraqi legislation depriving Palestinian refugees living in the country of all the rights and privileges granted to them over long years.
The legislation states that the Palestinian refugees will be treated as foreigners with no privileges.
Euro-Med condemned such law as a “serious and unprecedented step” against Palestinian refugees living in Iraq noting that most of them have been living there for over 50 years since they were forced to leave occupied Palestine.
The Geneva-based organization said the new law stripped Palestinian citizens living in Iraq of their right to obtain educational and health services and travel documents and deprived them of working in state institutions not to mention the obstacles they would face if they were working for the private sector.
