diff --git a/zanata-war/src/main/java/org/zanata/action/ProjectIterationFilesAction.java b/zanata-war/src/main/java/org/zanata/action/ProjectIterationFilesAction.java
index a08ffdd18e..9d50f5fe05 100644
--- a/zanata-war/src/main/java/org/zanata/action/ProjectIterationFilesAction.java
+++ b/zanata-war/src/main/java/org/zanata/action/ProjectIterationFilesAction.java
@@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ public TranslationStatistics getTransUnitForDocument(HDocument doc)
       }
    }
 
+   @Restrict("#{projectIterationFilesAction.documentRemovalAllowed}")
+   public void deleteDocument( HDocument doc )
+   {
+      doc = documentDAO.getById( doc.getId() ); // refresh the instance
+      doc.setObsolete(true);
+      documentDAO.makePersistent(doc);
+   }
+
    @Restrict("#{projectIterationFilesAction.fileUploadAllowed}")
    public String uploadTranslationFile()
    {
@@ -410,6 +418,12 @@ public boolean isDocumentUploadAllowed()
       return isIterationActive() && identity != null && identity.hasPermission("import-template", projectIteration);
    }
 
+   public boolean isDocumentRemovalAllowed()
+   {
+      // currently same permissions as uploading a document
+      return this.isDocumentUploadAllowed();
+   }
+
    public List<HDocument> getIterationDocuments()
    {
       return iterationDocuments;
diff --git a/zanata-war/src/main/resources/messages.properties b/zanata-war/src/main/resources/messages.properties
index ac147fafcb..d2bcf5386a 100644
--- a/zanata-war/src/main/resources/messages.properties
+++ b/zanata-war/src/main/resources/messages.properties
@@ -319,8 +319,10 @@ jsf.iteration.CopyTrans.Help.ignore=This condition will not be taken into accoun
 jsf.iteration.CopyTrans.Help.approve=Translation will be reused and marked as Approved if it has not been rejected or marked as fuzzy already.
 jsf.iteration.CopyTrans.NoDocuments=There are no documents in this project version.
 jsf.iteration.CopyTrans.Started=Translation copy started.
+jsf.iteration.files.ConfirmDocDeletion=Are you sure you want to remove this Source Document?
 jsf.iteration.files.ConfirmDownloadAllFiles=Your download will be prepared and may take a few minutes to complete. Is this ok?
 jsf.iteration.files.ContentType=Content Type
+jsf.iteration.files.DocumentDeleted=Document succesfully deleted.
 jsf.iteration.files.DocumentPath=Document Path
 jsf.iteration.files.dotpo=.po
 jsf.iteration.files.dotpot=.pot
diff --git a/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages.xml b/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages.xml
index c36e0c989f..8ce97610c0 100644
--- a/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages.xml
+++ b/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/pages.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <pages xmlns="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-2.1.xsd"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages http://jboss.com/products/seam/pages-2.2.xsd"
   no-conversation-view-id="/home.xhtml" login-view-id="/account/login.xhtml">
 
   <page view-id="*">
@@ -631,6 +631,14 @@
     <action execute="#{breadcrumbs.addLocation('/project/view/'.concat(projectIterationFilesAction.projectSlug), projectIterationFilesAction.projectSlug)}"/>
     <action execute="#{breadcrumbs.addLocation('/iteration/view/'.concat(projectIterationFilesAction.projectSlug).concat('/').concat(projectIterationFilesAction.iterationSlug), projectIterationFilesAction.iterationSlug)}"/>
     <action execute="#{breadcrumbs.addLocation('', messages['jsf.SourceDocuments'])}"/>
+
+    <navigation from-action="#{projectIterationFilesAction.deleteDocument(doc)}">
+      <redirect view-id="/iteration/source_files.xhtml">
+        <message severity="INFO">#{messages['jsf.iteration.files.DocumentDeleted']}</message>
+        <param name="project" value="#{projectIterationFilesAction.projectSlug}"/>
+        <param name="iteration" value="#{projectIterationFilesAction.iterationSlug}"/>
+      </redirect>
+    </navigation>
   </page>
 
   <page view-id="/iteration/files.xhtml">
diff --git a/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/iteration/source_files.xhtml b/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/iteration/source_files.xhtml
index f020ebaa21..4a9b39f902 100644
--- a/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/iteration/source_files.xhtml
+++ b/zanata-war/src/main/webapp/iteration/source_files.xhtml
@@ -103,6 +103,15 @@
                     </a>
                 </rich:column>
 
+                <rich:column rendered="#{projectIterationFilesAction.documentRemovalAllowed}" styleClass="centered">
+                    <f:facet name="header">
+                        #{messages['jsf.Actions']}
+                    </f:facet>
+                    <h:commandButton value="#{messages['jsf.Delete']}"
+                                     action="#{projectIterationFilesAction.deleteDocument(doc)}"
+                                     onclick="return confirm('#{messages['jsf.iteration.files.ConfirmDocDeletion']}')"/>
+                </rich:column>
+
                 <!-- TODO show stats for document across locales -->
 
             </rich:dataTable>