Allow Amdani Juma to stay in UK

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Allow Amdani Juma to stay in UK

Mr Amdani Juma is a refugee HIV prevention and community worker in Nottingham. He was detained by the immigration authorities on Friday 30th May 2008 and is currently awaiting removal to Burundi on June 4th. Amdani is a popular, active and enormously well-respected refugee community worker in Nottingham, with a particular interest in HIV prevention work.

Amdani is a Burundian national. In 2003, he was granted 3 years Humanitarian Protection but his later application for Indefinite Leave to Remain was turned down. A further application to the Home Office for a discretionary decision has also been refused.

Amdani has a singular track record as a voluntary and paid refugee support worker. He is employed in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forums floating support team and as a HIV support worker for the Terrence Higgins Trust. He has also served on the National Refugee Integration Forum. Given his track record, Amdani should be regarded as a prime candidate for a positive decision. He is an exemplary role model for integration and community cohesion.

Amdani is a torture survivor and a pro-democracy activist, who escaped death on more than one occasion. He has no immediate family left in Burundi. Amdanis cousin, brother and sister have all been given Leave to Remain in the UK or the Netherlands. Human Rights organisations and the UN have reported ongoing human rights abuses in Burundi, including harassment and torture.

We the undersigned call upon the Secretary of State to reconsider Amdani Jumas case and to grant him permission to remain in the UK.

Friend of Amdani

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jasim Ghafur
- Comments
- Amdani Juma must be freed and granted refugee status in the UK
- Organisation
- NNRF
Paul Carroll
Linda East
- Comments
- Amdani's invaluable community work should be recognised
- Organisation
- University of Nottingham
Ayhan Mimtas
Professor Roger Bromley
Dave Hewitt
- Organisation
- UNISON / NNRF.
Richard Hindes
Jenny Gordon
- Organisation
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Jo Keely
- Comments
- Amdani is an amazing person he waits patiently for justice to be done and has faith that he will be released from detention, knowing that we will not rest until he is released tp continue to do the work he does to support the most vulnerable members of our society. Please please help him i need to let my children know that this is a country that they could be proud of and safe. Release Amdani and do the right thing please
- Organisation
- NUT
GARY FREEMAN
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- The Home Office should be welcoming someone like AmDani Juma who was a member of the Home Office run National Refugee Integration Unit.
Simon Anthony
- Comments
- When good people need help, good people should give it.
- Organisation
- Tortoisesoft Enterprises
Saeed Arman
- Comments
- Amdani's deportation must stop,
- Organisation
- International Organisation of Iranian Refugees
Helen Everett
- Comments
- Amdani deserves to be granted leave to remain for the outstanding work he does in his local community and the East Midlands region
- Organisation
- Leicester City of Sanctuary
Patrick Essalo
- Comments
- Mr Amdani is the most lovely person i never meet all my life he deserve to stay in this Country
- Organisation
- Nottingham Concolese Community
David Groom
Heather Crimmins
- Comments
- A great friend and an asset to our community
Anthony Paul Smith
- Organisation
- University of Nottingham, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Houzan Mahmoud
- Comments
- Amdani must be allowed to stay in UK
- Organisation
- www.equalityiniraq.com
Rob Peutrell
- Comments
- I have known Amdani since he first came to Nottingham. He is an exceptional individual whose work in refugee integration and HIV prevention has been exemplary. The Government talk about citizenship and community cohesion and then want to deport Amdani!! He even served on the Home Office Refugee Integration Forum. Let him stay.
- Organisation
- UCU
Miriam Hollis
- Comments
- Amdani. A multi lingual (4 languages) graduate engineer, who has committed himself to working with familes and individuals - of the host community and the refugee communities. His work in housing supports members of the host community; his work as a support worker assists the resettlement of seekers of asylum granted status in the UK; his work in HIV prevention is a passion; his Saturday school for children was a personal commitment to the education of children in the City. He holds a non judgmental attitude in times of great difficulty. All the news reports from Burundi in the last two months indicates that Burundi is still struggling to find and live in peace. After initially being granted Humanitarian Protection, Amdani continues to need it now. I urge you to grant him leave to remain.
- Organisation
- Sankofa Foundation
Charlotte Manicom
- Organisation
- Nottingham University
Dr Sue Roffey
- Comments
- Amdani's interpreting and other skills are of great value in the community he has been working with. It is both short sighted and inhumane for the authorities to deport him without due consideration of the negative consequences for both Amdani and other families. This act is inconsistent with government policy on the promotion of social inclusion.
Beth Newton
Joanna Slattery
- Organisation
- NUT
Sam R|obinson
- Comments
- Why such inhumanity from this government, this man is doing fine work here, is already a survivor of torture, his family are here. Where has our humanity & compassion gone?
Brian Davey
- Comments
- Deporting Amdani Juma would shame this country.
Sue Wilders
- Comments
- This man is clearly an asset to the UK and should never be sent back to a potentially dangerous situation.
Barbara Malinen
Yousif Mohammad
June Thomson
Stacey Long
Leo Keely
- Comments
- I know of no-one who through his work has earned such love and respect .
Andrew Balmer
- Comments
- I do not believe Burundi to be a safe place for Amdani to return.
- Organisation
- The University of Nottingham
Rowan Huggins
Suzanne Newcombe
Imelda Read
haidar namiq hamma
- Comments
- no thing
- Organisation
- gis
richard bryant-jefferies
- Comments
- I most strongly urge you to reconsider this case. To not do so would be a sad reflection on Britain and on myself as a British citizen in whose name you act.
Chris Jefferson
- Comments
- Amdani has done so much for the local community. His departure would be our loss. Please give this issue proper consideration.
Alexander Andrews
Gill Buttery
- Organisation
- Leicester, City of Sanctuary
yvone powles
Stuart Brown
Sheila Mosley
Jenny White
Maggie O'Neill
- Comments
- Amdani is a valued community member and an asset to the UK
- Organisation
- Loughborough University
Peter Loewenstein
- Comments
- I have witnessed Amdani's at the Refugee forum for the past couple of years. I cannot imagine a less apprpriate person to consider for deportation - someone who is inclusive in his dealings with all people, who is genuine and honest and who is totally committed to his work on HIV/Aids and on behalf of other refugees and asylum seekers. He has done no harm to anyone and a huge amount of good on a voluntary basis. Amdani should be allowed to stay, since repatriation would put him in life-threatening danger
Gaylan Nazhad
- Comments
- Free for Amdani, shame on you Home Office it's 21th century! Where is the human right in the UK?????
- Organisation
- Long Jorney Home
Ned Newitt
Carmel O'Regan
- Organisation
- Leicester City of Sanctuary

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