SCOTTISH amateur lightweight boxing champion Dastan Kamil called on supporters yesterday to keep the pressure on the Home Office as he waits for his citizenship meeting next Thursday.

Kamil and his Kurdish-Iraqi family began a hunger strike on Wednesday outside the Home Office’s Immigration Reporting Centre in Glasgow.

They went without food or water for over 24 hours before the officials agreed to a meeting. Kamil wants “as many people as possible to come along next week when we are meeting. That way they can’t deny us.”

He said: “We are calling off the protest because the deal was we would leave if they gave us the guarantee of a meeting. We got a letter off them today to say that they would meet us with our lawyer next Thursday morning at 11am.”

The 19-year-old has lived in Scotland for the last 13 years and won the Boxing Scotland Elite and Youth Championship this year.