A Nigerian migrant whose claim for asylum in Britain was rejected eight times has finally been granted the right to stay after deliberately joining a terror group to boost her claim.
According to British media, the 49-year-old woman became involved with the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ‘in order to create a claim for asylum’, a judge said.
The migrant came to the UK in 2011 and joined the IPOB, a separatist group that has been blamed for acts of violence and labelled a terrorist organisation by Nigeria, but not the UK, in 2017.
Upper Tribunal judge, Gemma Loughran, said that because the woman was part of the group, she had a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ in her home country.
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Shadow home secretary, Chris Philip slammed the decision to grant asylum as a ‘comically ludicrous’ interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
It is the latest in a series of tribunal rulings allowing deportations to be paused or asylum to be granted under human rights laws.
The migrant said she was worried about being arrested at the airport and made to disappear if she returned to her country, The Telegraph reported.
A lower tribunal judge originally rejected this claim due to lack of evidence about her activities within the group.
Judge Iain Burnett ruled that the woman joined the IPOB purely ‘in order to create a claim for asylum.’
But the Upper Tribunal judge overturned the decision, saying it was likely that the woman would be identified as an activist upon her return.
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