A Manchester City Council employee who has spent the past five years helping people with HIV and AIDS faces possible deportation to Kosovo as an asylum seeker.

Despite the new life Demaj has created for himself, and his continued fears for his safety, the Home Office has denied indefinite leave to remain ? and informed him that he can now be deported at any time.

According to UNISON, which is campaigning on Demaj's behalf, 'civil servants' have also insisted that the council sack him from his job and denied the authority's request that he be granted a work permit.

?It is disgraceful that someone who has contributed so much to the community and paid taxes for four and a half years should be left destitute and forced out of the country,? said UNISON assistant branch secretary Wendy Allison.

?If Perparim is sent back to Kosovo there is a very real prospect that he could lose his life,? she added. ?At the same time, his former colleagues, service users, friends and local community feel they also have much to lose if he goes.

Allison is the chair of the 'Perparim Demaj Must Stay Campaign', which has been working with MPs and the media, in a bid to persuade the Home Office to grant discretionary leave to remain.

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