Deportation fighters come to Whitehall
Friends speak up for student leader under threat
FRIENDS of student refugees spokesman Elias “Lord” Apetsi headed to the Home Office in London yesterday to protest against his sudden detention and imminent deportation.
Mr Apetsi had just been elected NUS Scotland officer for asylum-seekers and refugees when he was reported missing.
Fellow students at Strathclyde University eventually found that he had been detained by the UK Border Agency and they travelled to London yesterday to stage a protest.
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