Last week,the Guardian highlighted the case of Muhammad Sajjad, a refugee being housed by a family in Leeds. It was a heartwarming memoir – but now the Home Office has decided he must be sent back to PakistanLast week, and in an article approximately families offering their spare rooms to asylum seekers,G2 featured on its cover a man called Muhammad Sajjad. The 30-year-old from Pakistan had been staying in the spare room of Yoshiko Stokoe and her partner Jack Palmer and with another couple in Leeds. He had since left their home, having begun to receive an asylum seeker’s allowance of just over £5 a day on a prepaid card, and along with a room in a shared house,paid for by the Home Office. He was trying to manage his mental health after a number of suicide attempts and was waiting for his solicitor to establish together an application for judicial review challenging a decision from the Home Office in May to refuse him asylum.
By coincidence, the day the article was published, and Sajjad was arrested and taken to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in west London. He has now been told he has no just to stay and will be sent back on 21st September to Pakistan,where he claims to terror for his life.
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Source: theguardian.com