Azeem Wazir is due to be sent back to his homeland on Friday and is currently being held at Colnbrook detention centre.
He attends a Catholic church in Bristol and works as a caretaker at Woodlands Church in the city – where he also lives in a community house with the pastor.
Mr Wazir came to the UK in 2015, leaving behind his family in Lahore because he had been targeted by Islamic extremists and feared for his life.
Dave Mitchell, senior pastor at Woodlands church told Premier that Azeem is a “kind” and “warm” man who was kept in detention when he went to a regular signing on at a police station and wasn’t allowed to leave.
Mr Mitchell told Premier Christian Radio’s News Hour: “He’s been part of a wonderful Catholic Church in Bristol, but then he’s come to live with me in my community house and we’ve become really close. And so, you know, every day someone’s gone up from Bristol to the detention centre to see him since he was arrested last week.
“Like anybody who’s got a pending appeal for right of asylum, he was signing on the police station and showed up to sign and was just not allowed to leave and later that evening whisked up to Heathrow, so didn’t have any clothes or made any preparations and then there’s just kind of a week’s notice – ‘You’re going to be on a plane back to Pakistan'”.
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