Chilean student who was refused entry to State is released

A 33-year-old Chilean woman kept in solitary confinement for more than a week in the female section of Mountjoy Prison after immigration officials refused to allow her into the country has been released.

The State did not contest an inquiry into the legality of the detention of Estefany Carolina Alquinta Gonzalez who came to Ireland earlier this month to commence a six month course with a Dublin-based Language School to study English.