Professor Gerald Pillay,

Professor Gerald Pillay,                                              Professor Michael Brown,
Vice-Chancellor & Rector,                                          Vice Chancellor,
Liverpool Hope University,                                          Liverpool John Moores University,
Hope Park,                                                                  Egerton Court, 2 Rodney Street,
Liverpool L16 9JD                                                       Liverpool, L3 5U

Dear Professor Gerald Pillay and Professor Michael Brown

We are writing in support of the Pakistani students from your institutions currently being held without any charges being laid against them and under threat of deportation.

For the sake of the academic integrity of UK HE institutions, we urge your institution to demand that any students being held without charge should be released. These students came to the UK to better themselves educationally. In most cases their families have made substantial sacrifices in support of them.

The students have now been told that their bail application cannot be heard until July.

They will be doubly victimised for something that they have not done if they are not permitted to complete their exams.

We therefore call upon your institution to provide them with study material during the period of their incarceration. This will at least give them a focus and occupy their minds at what is a very difficult time for them and their families.

We urge your university to liaise with the prison authorities to permit your students access to their course materials and make arrangements for them to be able to sit for their exams.

Yours faithfully

Prof. Jawed Siddiqi, Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester

Prof. Steve Tombs, Liverpool John Moores University

Prof. Scott Poynting, Manchester Metropolitan University

Prof. Anne Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science
Prof. John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths, University of London

Professor Richard Bornat, Middlesex University

Professor Aneez Esmail, University of Manchester

Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Aston

Professor Sara Mills, Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Babak Akghar, Sheffield Hallam University

Professor Valerie Bryson, University of Huddersfield

Hilary Wainwright, University of Bradford

Anandi Ramamurthy, University of Central Lancashire

Kalpana Wilson, London School of Economics

Paul Keleman, University of Manchester

Virinder Kalra, University of Manchester

Tej Purewal, University of Manchester

Karl Reed, La-Trobe University, Australia

Diane Frost, University of Liverpool

Mel Walker, University of Salford

Fazila Bhimji, University of Central Lancashire

Georgina Gregory, University of Central Lancashire

Richard Wild, University of Greenwich

David Whyte, University of Liverpool

Graham Smith, University of Manchester

Robert Moore, University of Liverpool

Paul Adams, University of Liverpool

Marta Bolognani, University of Wales Institute

Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes University

Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester

Gabriel Theodore, University of Gloucestershire

Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University

Mike Grimsley, Sheffield Hallam University

Elizabeth Lawrence Sheffield Hallam University

Mehdi Mir Ghasemi Sheffield Hallam University

Ciara Kierans, University of Liverpool Bridget Byrne, University of Manchester

Stephanie Petrie, University of Liverpool

M Amer Morgahi, ISIM, Netherlands,

Yasir Faheem, University of Manchester

David Miller, University of Strathclyde

Martyn Ralph, University of Liverpool

Ann Singleton, University of Bristol

Clare Hemmings, Director, LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics
Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge,
Kamal A. Munir, University of Cambridge,
Aisha Gill, Roehampton University
Yasmeen Narayan, Birkbeck, University of London
Hazel Johnstone, London School of Economics,
Jin Haritaworn, London School of Economics
Ania Plomien, London School of Economics
Jonathan Dean, London School of Economics
Alana Lentin, University of Sussex
Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics
Michael Hrebeniak, University of Cambridge
Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster
Adi Kuntsman, University of Manchester
Dwijen Rangnekar, University of Warwick

Suki Ali, London School of Economics

Sharad Chari London School of Economics Ravi Thiara University of Warwick

Yvette Taylor, Newcastle University

Georgina Blakeley, Open University,
Silvia Posocco, London School of Economics

Wendy Sigle-Rushton, London School of Economics

Graham Dyer, SOAS, University of London

Sarah Lamble, University of Kent

Les Levidow Open University

Anthony Meehan Open University