{"id":76547,"date":"2025-06-19T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76547"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:29:15","slug":"mothers-deportation-to-gambia-halted-by-judge-after-she-was-rushed-to-heathrow-at-3am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/mothers-deportation-to-gambia-halted-by-judge-after-she-was-rushed-to-heathrow-at-3am\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s deportation to Gambia halted by judge after she was rushed to Heathrow at 3am"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1DDfZn.img?w=534&amp;h=712&amp;m=6&amp;x=450&amp;y=256&amp;s=375&amp;d=375\" alt=\"Tamba\u2019s family has said she faces political persecution if she returns to the African country (Supplied)\" width=\"395\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A<a title=\"Mother facing political persecution who has lived in UK for 16 years to be deported to the Gambia\u00a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/fatou-tamba-deportation-home-office-gambia-b2738944.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0mother facing political persecution in her native African country<\/a>\u00a0was forced to wait at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/heathrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Heathrow<\/a>\u00a0airport for 12 hours before a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/home-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Home Office<\/a>\u00a0attempt to deport her to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/gambia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Gambia<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mother-s-deportation-to-gambia-halted-by-judge-after-she-was-rushed-to-heathrow-at-3am\/ar-AA1GWBOd?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=272f2f5b3f39425693cd24cb391e1ec7&amp;ei=42\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; A\u00a0mother facing political persecution in her native African country\u00a0was forced to wait at\u00a0Heathrow\u00a0airport for 12 hours before a\u00a0Home Office\u00a0attempt to deport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Fatou-Tamba.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76549,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76547\/revisions\/76549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}