Muhammad Ali, 35, was studying for a postgraduate course in tourism management in Scotland in 2014 when his house was raided at 5am by Home Office enforcement officers. He was accused of cheating in an English-language exam he took in 2012, and was held in immigration detention for 14 days. He returned to Pakistan and has been unable to clear his name from there. He speaks fluent English with a Scottish accent.
He said: “I was handcuffed and held in a nightmarish detention centre. Since coming back home I’ve struggled to explain to my family what happened. My father is a respectable senior banker, who worked for the same bank in Karachi for 42 years. He poured so much money into sending me to the UK to study. It was such a prestigious thing, to send your son to the UK for higher education.
