Young Nigerian immigrant held for a month in airport asylum room
Authorities want woman to report prostitute-trafficking ring they say brought her to Spain
A young Nigerian woman has spent the last 29 days in a room at Barajas airport reserved for immigrants who are turned away by customs officials.
The young woman, whose age has been estimated at somewhere between 16 and 20 until definitive age test results are released, landed in Spain on April 1 on a flight from Romania, said the radio station SER.
The migrant was due to be released Friday and allowed to remain in Spain for a further 30 days, on condition that she file a formal complaint against the trafficking ring that, she says, forced her to come to Spain to work as a prostitute, and whom she allegedly owes 55,000 euros.
On April 3, a refugee group helped her request asylum as a victim of human trafficking. Her case is unprecedented in that nobody had spent such a long time in the airport asylum room before. During the coming month she will stay at an immigrant center run by the social services.
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