UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran

By Alexandra Topping

Lawyers for a nine-year-old boy set to be removed from the UK tomorrow are urgently trying to stop his deportation.

The Iranian boy, known for legal reasons as Child M, has been locked up in Yarl’s Wood in Bedfordshire, the UK’s main immigration removal centre for women and families, since he was arrested with his mother and older brother in Manchester this week. They are due to be put on a flight to Iran tomorrow at 6.30pm.

Child M’s mother has been trying to claim asylum, saying her life is in danger if she returns to Iran because photocopied extracts of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses were found in her house and business.

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