Pressure mounts on Priti Patel over case of 11-year-old at risk of FGM
Open letter by former judges, leading politicians and campaigners urges home secretary to grant asylum to Sudanese girl
Barristers, former judges, politicians and campaigners are among 300 people who have signed an open letter to the home secretary, Priti Patel, urging her to grant asylum to an 11-year-old girl at high risk of female genital mutilation if taken abroad.
Helena Kennedy QC, former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal, campaigner Leyla Hussein and more than 30 MPs have added their names to the letter published by the the Good Law Project alongside a petition launched today.
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