STOP PRESS 28 November: Lawyers were engaged in a frantic behind-the-scenes battle to save a Nigerian asylum seeker today, after a last-minute reprieve won him another two days in the UK. Isa Muazu has not eaten in 90 days and now weighs just 50 kilograms. He is no longer able to see or stand. He was due to be deported yesterday evening on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Nigeria but the removal was delayed until Friday. A man who is "close to death" after being on hunger strike in immigration detention for three months could be sent back to Nigeria on Wednesday after his case failed in the Court of Appeal. Isa Muazu says he is willing to die rather than return home. His case that he was being held unlawfully was rejected in the Court of Appeal today after a High Court bid for his release from Harmondsworth immigration removal centre failed last week. . (The Independent Tuesday 26 November 2013)