MPS backs bid to stop deporation of orphan
A campaign to save a ten-yearold Glasgow-based orphan from being sent back to Georgia has been backed by political and religious leaders.
Giorgi Kakava’s future was thrown into doubt after the death of his mother, Sopio Baikhadze, in February while they were seeking asylum. There are now warnings that the youngster’s life could be in danger from gangsters if he is sent home to Georgia.
Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the schoolboy was “just as Glaswegian as me or anyone else in this city”.
He spoke out after Rev Brian Casey of Springburn Parish Church in Glasgow launched an online petition to try and prevent the schoolboy from being deported.
A meeting on the youngster’s future will be held next week.
Mr Harvie plans to lodge a motion in the Scottish Parliament, calling on the Home Office to immediately grant them asylum.
He said: “Giorgi and his grandmother deserve the right to live permanently in the place they call home.”