After nearly two years of waiting in Iceland, the asylum application of Nigerian asylum seeker, Sunday Iserian and his family was rejected by the Icelandic Directorate of Immigration.
A Nigerian asylum seeker in Iceland, Sunday Iserian, said “I m a dead man if I go back to Nigeria, but this isn’t about me, it’s about my daughter. I want her to have a chance of a better life,” he said in an interview with Iceland Monitor.
2-year-old Iserian lives in Iceland with his wife, Joy Lucky and their eight year old daughter Mary. They have been subjected to violence, poverty and threats, and Joy Lucky was a victim of sexual slavery while pregnant with Mary.
The news of the the rejection of their application has met with some furor in Iceland and a petition is now online for them to be able to stay in the country.
Speaking to mbl.is, Joy describes being approached by a vicar at her local church back in Nigeria who promised to get her a job as a nanny in Europe. Once she accepted the offer, which she had good faith in, she was taken to a building where her hair, and her pubic hair, was cut off and her body washed according to black magic rituals to scare her into compliance. She was transported to Libya where she met Sunday and fell in love. Once they fled across the Mediterranean to Italy the couple lost track of each other and Joy discovered that she was pregnant. She only found Sunday again three years later.
Upon arrival in Italy, Joy was transported to a building in Naples where she was told that she was not going to work as a nanny, but as a prostitute. She was told she owed 50 thousand Euros for her transport to Italy and had to repay that debt by selling her body on the streets of Naples.
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