Joyous reunion for Afghan who can stay in deportation U-turn

Yorkshire Post | January 16, 2006 | Copyright

Emma Dunlop

A REFUGEE granted last-minute leave to stay in this country only days before he was to have been deported has been reunited with his family.

Mohammed Arrian, 34, was to have been sent back to his native Afghanistan tomorrow in spite of huge protests after it was revealed his life would have been in danger.

On Friday Government officials did a U-turn over his asylum status, giving him the right to remain in the United Kingdom indefinitely.

It meant Mr Arrian, who was at a holding centre in Dover, could be reunited with his family at their home in Sheffield.

The campaign on his ...

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