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Woman loses challenge to deportation to Nigeria
Posted: 27 January 2009 01:40 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0127/breaking25.htm A woman who claims her two young daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation if returned to Nigeria has lost a challenge to her deportation. Pamela Izevbekhai and her daughters, Naomi (7) and Jemima (6), took the judicial review proceedings after the Minister for Justice refused to consider her claim for “subsidiary protection” here. Following a two-day hearing last week, Mr Justice Brian McGovern reserved judgment in the case, saying he would give his ruling today. The family claimed the Minister had erred in law by refusing to grant them subsidiary protection or to overturn the deportation orders. They claimed the Minister wrongly found that material submitted by them as part of that application was “similar in content” to information submitted on their behalf in 2005 and did not constitute new information. The material includes statements from medical practitioners and human rights groups about the practice of genital mutilation in Nigeria and the family claim it shows the two young children’s lives are at serious risk due to the practice. Should Pamela be given asylum in Ireland?
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Posted: 27 January 2009 02:28 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Is this the same woman who has already lost a daughter genital mutilation?
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Posted: 27 January 2009 02:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Yep, the same Venus x
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