The strange case of TB or not TB | IMGpapers 1980

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'VIRGINITY tests' are not the only medical ploy being used to exclude black people Britain. Mohammed Butt presently faces deportation because an immigration service doctor says he has infectious tuberculosis.

Mohammed arrived in Britain in February atter being cleared by Office officials, including a doctor, in Pakistan. But he was immediately arrested pending deportation.

Pressure on the Office resulted in his tempo. rary release trom nospital. provided Mohammed paid private medical treatment.

Now a private consul tant says that Mohammec has onlv a mild form of TB which does not prevent him from working and that in anv case the ilness will be cured in less than three months.

has been lodged against the refusal of leave to enter Britain, and even it thr is successiul -which will be known in? few days - Mohammed will still have to reapply for permission to enter me colntry.

A defence campaign is being set up. aimed at the labour movement •and workers. risens Mohammed Butt, c/o 301 Cheetham Hill Rd, Manchester 8.