University of London graduate Guy Njike (see inset) faces possible deportation to Cameroon which could result in his imprisonment, torture and death. 

Guy fled Cameroon in 1999, having been imprisoned and tortured there because of his political activity with the opposition party, the Social Democrat Front. While in England, he waited 5 years for an asylum interview and received counselling for the traumatic torture he underwent.
Two and a half years after that asylum interview, on the 11th of February 2008, he was detained and faced with deportation. His asylum claim had failed as the home office decided that it was not substantiated; the submitted evidence of persecution was dismissed.
Guy is 41, he has lived in London 9 years and completed an MA in Human Rights at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in Russell Square. He has worked in this country, paid taxes, voted and even served jury duty.
Through his study he has made friends with British Students like Sara Hall, a UCL PhD student in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. It was Sara who put forward the motion for UCLU to support Guy Njike at last years Union’s AGM.
Sara, along with Guy’s other friends, organised a protest in Parliament Square. Many people protested, although few actually knew Guy. Another friend of Guy’s, Emily Pearce, explained, ‘we’re asking the home secretary to use her discretion to review the case again’. She went on to say ‘we view the way he’s been treated as despicable’.
1,901 people signed the online petition for Guy Njike and in June of this year the home office reconsidered the situation and have allowed for the evidence submitted earlier to build a fresh claim for asylum. The claim will be submitted this month. If you would like to support Guy Njike please visit the Facebook group ‘Stop the deportation of Guy Njike’ or visit the official site at http://stopdeportationofguy.wordpress.com/