A DISABLED Asian woman who fled threats of rape and death in India faces eviction from her Manchester home after being refused asylum.

She today appears before a Manchester asylum appeal tribunal in an attempt to have the eviction order overturned.

Trade unionists and asylum campaigners are demonstrating there in her support.

Manjeet Kaur lived in India and came to Britain three years ago after the disappearance of her husband Amitt Bhatt.

He is a journalist and Kashmiri human rights activist who was threatened and attacked because of his anti-government articles and books. He has spoken on the same human rights platform as Jemima Khan.

Ms Kaur was beaten twice and threatened with rape and murder by people looking for her husband before fleeing to Britain.

She suffered polio and uses a wheelchair. The beatings worsened her condition.

Ms Kaur has relatives in England. Earlier this year, her husband escaped to Britain and claimed asylum.

She campaigns for disabled human rights and is chairwoman of Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research.

Ms Kaur worked with the UK Disabled People’s Council on disability and asylum issues and has spoken out publicly against Tory anti-immigrant policies.

After refusing her asylum the Home Office withdrew her housing support. She faces eviction by privateer Serco, which runs asylum seeker housing in the North West.

Telling her to quit her home by October 9, Serco wrote: “Should you refuse to leave the property on this date, we will have no choice but to take legal action to evict you.”

Ms Kaur said: “I will be made destitute with a limited ability to survive on the streets. Is this something the state allows to happen in the society that we live in?

“The asylum process feels like a slow poison that is taking away my zest for life.”

Sharon Hooley, of the Direct Action Network for Disabled People said: “We say this is a ‘civilised country’ yet it seems perfectly acceptable to demonise, discriminate, alienate and rob disabled people of their basic human needs.”

The demonstration is 9am to 10am outside the Tribunal, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester.