Three concrete actions you can take in fifteen minutes. Templates, contacts, and social-media kit.
Detention has now passed four and a half years. Each detention extension brings a renewed deportation risk and a further factual ground for the European Court of Human Rights case.
1. Write to your Member of the European Parliament. Ask them to co-sign or echo the existing MEP letters and to raise the case in plenary or committee.
2. Write to your foreign ministry and your embassy in Sofia. Ask them to raise the case bilaterally with Bulgarian counterparts.
3. Share the case on social media using the hashtags #FreeAlKhalidi and #TransnationalRepression. Tag relevant rapporteurs and Members.
End administrative detention. Bulgarian courts have ordered release; those orders must be executed.
Recognise international protection or arrange safe resettlement to a third country.
Suspend any deportation procedure and end the constructive refoulement created by the national-security classification and the SIS alert.
Tap inside the box, select all, and copy. You can then adapt the introduction and personal paragraph before sending.
Your MEP — search by country at europarl.europa.eu/meps.
Your foreign ministry — request a démarche raising the case with Bulgaria.
Your embassy in Sofia — ask for engagement at the bilateral level.
European Commission · DG HOME — for asylum-law compliance issues.
EU Special Representative for Human Rights — for human-rights defenders concerns.
See the documents page for the supporting record, the ECHR case page for procedural status, and the international voices page for the network of public interventions on the case.