Hadi Rahbar went to Germany in 2014, but has not been in contact with his family for years.
“I have had no news of him for three years. His friends say he has developed amnesia in Germany and does not recognize anyone. It has been three years since he has had any contact with me and I am not in a good position here to be able to go and search for him,” his father told Rudaw’s Diaspora program.
According to the father, Rahbar was living in Leipzig, in the German state of Saxony. He claims that his son is being kept in a hospital where they are “keeping him on injections and medication, and he does not recognize anyone.”
“They said either his father must come or a lawyer with power of attorney. Because I work as a taxi driver, I cannot do much and I do not have enough to go after him,” he said.
Germany has a large Kurdish population with over a million Kurds from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey seeking asylum over the past decades.
It hosts one of the largest refugee populations worldwide, but in January the parliament passed a motion that tightened migration rules - preventing illegal immigration, deporting illegal immigrants, deporting foreign criminals, imprisoning immigrants who must leave Germany, and ending family reunification.
