"She called from Schiphol just before her flight. She was upset. I have to calm her tried because they can not have too much stress. I am very afraid for the health of our baby," says the Iraqi refugee Naji Haji Karo his wife Khairia.
Wednesday morning, the 22-year-old Yezidi refugee Khairia Barakt expelled to Romania and that while more than five months pregnant. She was from the Netherlands because they were in possession of a Romanian residence permit and therefore can not just stay in our country.
She does not know anyone in Romania
"I am very sad and scared. She knows no one in Romania and speaks only Yezidis. I do not know how she will soon be collected, how it is going with her, I know nothing," says a distraught Haji Karo RTL Nieuws. It is the second time the woman out of the country, happened earlier that although in July this year. But Barakt came back to Baarn, because she wants to be with her husband.
Haji Karo already fled in 2010 from his hometown Sinjar in Iraq because he was threatened in his own words in the hospital where he worked as a pharmacist. "I was threatened with death, as some people thought I could not handle Yezidis." He fled, but not before he married Barakt. Haji Karo eventually asked for asylum in the Netherlands and got that too.
Flight to mount in Sinjar
For four years he was separated from his wife, who remained in Sinjar. When IS in 2014 occupied Sinjar, Barakt fled like thousands of other Yezidis a mountain, says Haji Karo. When the mountain was freed by Kurdish fighters she fled with her family to Europe. After a difficult journey they arrived in Romania, where she was first registered.
There it is, according to the couple's attorney, Monique Polman, gone wrong. She has at the first sign not indicated that she was married to a man who already had a residence permit in the Netherlands. "She did not bring her husband into trouble and then concealed the marriage," says Polman. A repeated application was rejected in the Netherlands because the couple did not have an original marriage certificate. "The act I lay Sinjar, in war zones, which you do not get in a few weeks," said the lawyer.
Pregnant in detention
In July 2015 Barakt was plotted for the first time in Romania. That country decided to give her a residence permit. Thus they returned to the Netherlands, but she was taken on arrival at the airport in detention. Over two months, she has while she was pregnant, stuck in a detention center in Zeist.
The past year was, according to Haji Karo terrible. So he lost his job and he stopped his training as a pharmacist's assistant. But the visit to his wife in the detention center were the heaviest. "Every visit she told me that she felt as good as dead, and that they not go on wild life. I could not do anything except try to get her calm again. If during your pregnancy is not good eating and not sleeping, with the child is also not good, "he says.
"Could not continue driving"
Also for Haji Karo stress was sometimes too much. For example, when he was a few weeks ago his wife went to see. "I was driving on the freeway and then began to turn my head. I could not ride any further and went to stand on the sidelines." Eventually he was checked around at a police station by a doctor and he could move on.
The couple, together with their lawyer for a year tried everything to keep Khairia in the Netherlands, but that failed. A distraught Haji Karo understands nothing of it. "I have enormous respect for the Dutch rules, but our lives will be destroyed. It is not at all looked at our situation," said Haji Karo. "We are safe here, but our life is so very heavy, it is almost worse than in Iraq."
Proper medical care
Meanwhile, Amnesty International also delved into the matter. They affirm that the expansion is done in accordance with European rules, but it looked better should be the situation of the couple. "It is totally unclear whether Barakt in Romania getting the medical care they need," says a spokesman. Also in national politics there is attention to the case. Thus MP Joel Voordewind of the Christian Union has sent a request to responsible state secretary Klaas Dijkhoff.
Haji Karo is now desperate and do not know what to do. He hopes his wife to speak as soon as possible when they landed in Romania. "My greatest wish is to be together with my wife and to witness the birth of our child."
© RTL Nieuws / Tim Senden
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