Lawyers for the man, an asylum seeker accepted by the Home Office to be a torture survivor, mounted a last-minute legal challenge to try to prevent him from being deported. However, not long after the Guardian published an article on Saturday afternoon about the threatened Christmas Day removal, the asylum seeker’s legal team were notified that the removal planned for Christmas Day had been deferred. He said his client’s vulnerability as a survivor of torture made it too dangerous to deport him. We were referred this client’s case at the last minute and without this intervention he would have been removed on Christmas Day. We believe that our client, a torture survivor, has a strong claim for protection in the UK and are fighting for his right to stay.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2017 18:44 UTC