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Closing down on compassion

01 May 1994

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A Colombian youth who was tortured and threatened with death by drug cartels is to be deported despite a plea by Immigration Appeal Tribunal to the minister. 19-year-old Harold Martinez has been detained in Feltham Young Offenders' Institute for the past 16 months, since claiming asylum. He came to Britain with his parents after the family's refusal to sell drugs from his father's hot dog van in Cali led to the van being blown up and Harold's being abducted and set on fire. His lawyers are to challenge the proposed deportation on the ground that it exposes Harold to a serious risk of death or torture and that Home Office Minister Charles Wardle's decision is illegal.

Guardian 22.4.94

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