Exclusive interview with detained Stirling University student

Muhammad Raud Waris has been detained by the Home Office for more than two months at Dungavel

Waris, 26, said he had left his mother and six sisters in his native Pakistan to study business management in Stirling so he could expand his family dairy farm in the country, and believed the Scottish university was one of the best places he could further hisSpeaking over the phone from the detention centre near Strathaven, Waris said he had been refused proper medical attention by staff at the facility and wanted to return to his studies.

He added: “I am already suffering the sickness, when I try to eat […] have just a little bit bite to eat. I even request a doctor so to refer me to a hospital, but she said according to our examination you don’t need it. I don’t know why she said it. She said: “Detention should be used as a last resort and only where removal is imminent. Despite this, Mr Waris has been detained for over six weeks with no removal directions having been set.

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