Thousands Sign Plea to Let Indian With Rare Disease Stay in UK

Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling on the UK Home Office to allow an Indian woman suffering from a rare disease stay in Britain.

The petition for Bhavani Espathi, who is seriously ill with Crohn's Disease, is edging close to its 150,000-signature target on Change.Org.

It was launched by the 31-year-old artist's fiance Martin Mangler -- a German national based in the UK as a volcanologist -- in order to help with a Home Office review of the case.