When Sarah told her boyfriend she was pregnant with his child, he called the Home Office and told them her visa had expired.
It was one way to deal with the fact he did not want the baby. She was arrested and detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre, a secure and closed building on the outskirts of Bedford where women are held while their immigration or refugee status is being decided.
Read the rest of this report over at openDemocracy
I have written about women held at Yarl’s Wood removal centre here and a report here on the UK Border Agency’s dealings with government officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi 