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Deportation 're-assessed'
A WOMAN due to have been deported today after making a life for herself in Sheffield over the last three years has been given a last minute reprieve.
Annociate Nimpagaritse, aged 25, had lived in Sheffield for three years before she was taken to deportation centre in Scotland and told she had to return to her African homeland Burundi - where her parents were both shot dead.
But friends and supporters launched a campaign urging the Home Office to overturn the decision and the young woman has now been told her case is being reassessed.
She is now in a deportation near Heathrow Airport waiting to learn of her fate.
Annociate was a student at Sheffield College, a member of the choir at St Marie's Cathedral, did voluntary work and was planning to marry.
Campaign group spokesman Graham Wroe, a college lecturer, said: "We are pleased that the case is being reassessed but still have very grave concerns because Annociate is now in a deportation centre near Heathrow in solitary confinement - it is torture for her.
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