“PLEASE do not deport me — I am a human being too” is the desperate plea of an ill refugee man facing deportation from Australia to Iraq.

The 60-year-old man, “Saeed” which is not his real name, is under threat of being forcibly exported to his mother country in coming days after an unsuccessful asylum claim on an administrative technicality.

He was transported yesterday from Melbourne Immigration Transfer Accommodation Centre to Villawood Detention Centre, where protesters have blockaded the entrance for four days.

media_camera The Iraqi man, known as Saeed, was brought to Villawood from Melbourne yesterday.

Refugee activists continue to protest outside the Sydney centre on Birmingham Rd, checking vehicles as they exit, in an attempt to stop the deportation of Saeed, who came to Australia by boat in 2012.

His solicitor, Allison Battison, released a statement this afternoon stating Saeed was “a family man” who wanted “to live out his days quietly in Australia”.

“My client is extremely grateful and overwhelmed by the support shown by the Australian community for his plight,” Ms Battison said.

“He only asks that the government hear his full story before making a decision to send him back to a country in which he, as a member of a persecuted minority group, faces violence.”

Last night, two men and two women were arrested following the fierce unauthorised protest that impeded traffic, police say.

media_camera Asylum seekers in the yard at Villawood.

Police, with assistance by the riot squad, issued an order for the group to move on and created a police line, which were allegedly ignored.

The non-English speaking asylum seeker is in a weak condition after being on a hunger strike for the past three weeks.

His brother, who arrived on the same boat, made a successful asylum claim yet Saeed was denied after spending four years in detention.

The pair is from a religious minority and supporters say the local head of their ethnic group was murdered in a suicide attack two years ago.

Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said Saeed was still weak from his recent hunger strike.

“It is callous in the extreme of (Immigration Minister) Peter Dutton to try to deport him back to danger.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the Department for Immigration and Border Protection said:

“This individual has had their claims for protection carefully assessed,” the spokesperson said.

“Their application was refused by the department and affirmed as refused through an independent merits review process.

“Their appeals to the Federal Court and the full bench of the Federal Court were also rejected. It is now expected they should depart Australia. For operational reasons, the department does not discuss details of specific removals.”