I was taken to the airport 3 times and told I’d be deported

I stand against women being detained (Picture: Simon Tang)

Once again, I was woken at 4:00am in my room at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

I was put in the back of a van and driven for around six hours to an airport, where I was told I’d be deported.

It’s difficult to describe the stress of that journey – the terror of thinking I was about to be sent back to a country I’d fled; a country I loved, but where I’d surely be put in prison, or killed, if I was to return.

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