Charles Atangana, a Cameroon journalist who has been living Britain since 2004, is facing deportation after losing his case for asylum. He believes he will be killed if he returns to Cameroon.
The National Union of Journalists is staging a last-ditch fight on his behalf by seeking an injunction against any deportation order.
Atangana, 42, was an investigative business journalist in his home country - specialising in stories about financial corruption - and before fleeing to Britain had been detained without trial and tortured.
He has been living in Glasgow, where he worked as a volunteer adviser with the Citizens Advice Bureau and with a refugee body. He also continued to write articles for a Cameroonian magazine. He is now being held in an immigration detention centre.
The NUJ has organised a protest outside the UK Border Agency building in Glasgow at 1pm today.
A report by the Federation of African Journalists in May described Cameroon as "one of the worst jailers of journalists in Africa". It noted that 13 prominent journalists were currently being detained or had been attacked or threatened.
The report concluded: "Arbitrary arrests and criminal prosecution of journalists, as well as torture, have become routine forms of abuse against press freedom, inflicting huge damage to any confidence in the rule of law and democracy."
Sources: The Herald/NUJ/IFJ
