Campaigners win immigration fight
AN ASYLUM seeker who feared she would be killed if she was deported from Sheffield has won her fight to remain in the city.
Annociate Nimpagaritse, aged 25, spent three years in Burngreave until she was taken to a deportation centre in Scotland earlier this month.
She was told she was to be removed from the country after two failed asylum applications and was transferred to a centre near Heathrow airport.
But a campaign launched by her friends in Sheffield led to a Home Office U-turn yesterday and the young woman was granted permission to remain in the country.
Annociate, a Sheffield College student and member of the choir at St Marie's Cathedral, sought asylum in Britain after her parents were murdered by rebels in the African country of Burundi.
She feared she would be killed if she was forced to return home.
Campaigners lobbied MPs at the Labour Party Conference, bombarded Immigration Minister Liam Byrne with letters and gathered outside Sheffield Town Hall to draw attention to her plight. They also launched a petition signed by more than 1,200 people.
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