A last-ditch community campaign has forced an east London council to halt its decision to evict a heavily pregnant refugee and send her 250 miles away from her family.
As revealed by openDemocracy on Friday, Tower Hamlets Council was today set to force Ayana* – who is due to give birth in early April – to move to Middlesbrough in the north of England, where she has no support network or medical history.
But after an appeal from a law firm who took on Ayana’s case, the council today withdrew the eviction notice “pending further enquiries”.
