A Chilean student kept in isolation for almost two weeks in the female section of Mountjoy Prison after immigration officials refused to allow her enter the State has said she is “so happy to be free”. She was freed on Tuesday after the State did not contest a High Court-ordered inquiry into the legality of her detention. I was isolated all the time and thinking of him; I felt he was with me all the time. “The people in prison who were dealing with me were kind but I was very scared. I am just happy to be free but I feel no one deserved something like this.”

Source: The Irish Times July 14, 2020 23:03 UTC