An Iranian asylum seeker is facing imminent deportation after the Home Office rejected calls from his MP to delay his removal amid concerns over his safety.
Kaveh Ghandizadeh Dezfuli, who has lived in London for five years, is being held at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport until he can be put on a flight back to Tehran.
Friends of Dezfuli, 37, who has become well known in the south London folk music scene, told the Guardian he fears persecution by the Islamic republic for performing with Iranian musicians who have criticised the regime.
Matthew Pennycook, the Labour MP for Greenwich, attempted to delay Dezfuli’s removal on Friday with an appeal to James Brokenshire, the immigration minister.
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