British government wants to deport Nigerian woman to death


This 20 June 2014 video from Britain is called Afusat Saliu and Anj Handa interview with ITV Yorkshire.

Another video from Britain used to say about itself:

FGM: Nigerian mother’s fears for two daughters if deportation goes ahead

25 April 2014

Afusat Saliu, 31, and her two children aged one and three, face deportation to Nigeria on Friday. Saliu, who was a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child, has appealed to the Home Office on the grounds that her daughters could face FGM if sent back to their home country. But her appeal was rejected on Thursday. Nigeria has the highest number of genitally mutilated women in the world.

By Paddy McGuffin in Britain:

Nigerian woman who fled FGM ‘faces death’ if deported back

Friday 30th May 2014

A WOMAN facing deportation from Britain to Nigeria risks being killed if returned to her home country, campaigners said yesterday.

Afusat Saliu was taken into custody by UK Border Agency staff on Wednesday and was scheduled to be flown back to the African country last night.

She fled to the Britain in 2011 while heavily pregnant after her stepmother threatened to subject her daughter Bassy, now four, to female genital mutilation (FGM). Her second daughter Rashidat, two, was born in London.

Ms Saliu — herself a victim of FGM — has said she fears her children will be cut and that she will be forced to marry a man against her will if she returns to her native country.

Since moving to Leeds three years ago Ms Saliu has converted to Christianity and friends and supporters fear she will be targeted by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram — the group responsible for the abduction of around 250 mainly Christian schoolgirls in northern Nigeria.

Ms Saliu’s solicitor BP Legal has launched a judicial review in a last-ditch attempt to keep her in Britain and has accused Home Office officials of ignoring their own guidelines by ordering her deportation before the review is heard.

Bhumika Parmar, her lawyer, said: “Once judicial review is issued, the Home Office rarely removes as a right to a fair hearing should be exercised.

“In fact, their own guidelines state that detention should be a last resort.”

More than 120,000 people have signed a petition calling for the Home Office to halt the deportation.

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8 thoughts on “British government wants to deport Nigerian woman to death

  1. This is so wrong and I’m ashamed of the Home Office which did not issue the required 72 hour notice before taking Afusat and her children into detention. This is a case of a genuine refugee requiring our help being turned down and yet Abu Hamza lived here for years fomenting trouble.
    This decision needs to be reversed on humanitarian grounds before wasting more money on a judicial review.
    I can’t help but wonder if there are any officials working for the home office who agree with FGM on a cultural level?

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