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 | | Monday, 11 February, 2002, 14:29 GMT Refugee family to be deported  Feriba Ahmadi says she is "too frightened" to go back An Afghan man living with his family in the West Midlands is to be deported on Thursday despite appeals to Tony Blair to allow him to stay in the country. Farid Ahmadi, his wife, Feriba, and their two children escaped from Kabul a year ago after being tortured by the Taliban. They arrived in Britain after being detained in a camp in Germany and have been living in Lye, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, where they have settled into the local community. However the Home Office has said the family must be deported back to Kabul. Legal representation They were due to leave last week but the children were too ill to travel. Friends of the family appealed to the Prime Minister to intervene in their case and allow them to stay but their attempts failed.
Mr Ahmadi will be the first to go and he is currently being held at a detention centre in Middlesex. He will be deported to Germany on Thursday. His wife and children remain at the family home in Lye. She told the BBC's Midlands Today programme: "I want to stay in this country. "I don't like to go back to Germany because I lived in Germany and had a very bad time." Mr Ahmadi's neighbours are taking him clothes and Euros in preparation for his journey and are still trying to find legal representation to overturn the decision. Soraya Walton, a neighbour and governor at the children's school, said: "They are very upset that they are being separated and now they know that they are going to be deported they are at a loss. "The children are frightened and all we are trying to do is get legal representation to put the case forward." | | See also:  Top England stories now:  Links to more England stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||
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