{"id":1119,"date":"2016-05-13T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:06:12","slug":"illegal-immigrant-exploited-fgm-laws-to-stay-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/illegal-immigrant-exploited-fgm-laws-to-stay-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrant exploited FGM laws to stay in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal immigrant from Nigeria was granted leave to remain in Britain after falsely alleging that her daughters would be subjected to female genital mutilation if they were sent back.<\/p>\n<p>A high court judge ruled that the three girls, aged 13, 10 and seven, needed protection from their father after hearing claims he was making arrangements for them to be \u201ccut\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark case the girls became the first subjects of a female genital mutilation (FGM) protection order, by the British courts.\u00a0But that decision has now been overturned after a different judge dismissed the claim, describing it as part of an \u201cimmigration scam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/08\/illegal-immigrant-exploited-fgm-laws-to-stay-in-britain\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/08\/illegal-immigrant-exploited-fgm-laws-to-stay-in-britain\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illegal immigrant from Nigeria was granted leave to remain in Britain after falsely alleging that her daughters would be subjected to female genital mutilation if they were sent back. A high court judge ruled that the three girls, aged 13, 10 and seven, needed protection from their father after hearing claims he was making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,98,4,417,204],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-halo-project","tag-immigrant","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}