One-week lifeline for women’s rights campaigner facing deportation

A NIGERIAN midwife and women’s rights campaigner was thrown a one-week lifeline yesterday in her battle to be allowed to live in Ireland.

Juliet Imiruaye now plans to seek an urgent judicial review of the decision to refuse her asylum application and deport her, five years after she first sought refuge here.

Mrs Imiruaye has spent much of her time in Ireland campaigning against female genital mutilation among the immigrant community, work for which she has earned the praise and support of many politicians.