‘Inhumane’ deportation process criticised

THE Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has called for an urgent review of the “inhumane” deportation process after a young mother was detained for deportation just hours after she suffered what appeared to be a miscarriage.

The Department of Justice, however, has refuted this, stating that the woman in question did not suffer a miscarriage and was fit to travel.

On Tuesday, Nigerian asylum seeker Olayinka Ijaware, who was believed to be seven-and-a-half weeks’ pregnant, was taken to the Rotunda hospital.