Wania -- as the new coalition government announced last week -- will be the last child to be held behind bars in Dungavel while seeking asylum.
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The last child at Dungavel
As Wania Shabaz yesterday boarded a late afternoon Pakistan Airlines flight from London Heathrow to Lahore, and took off into a beautiful, clear sunny sky, held in her mother Sehar’s arms, the little girl brought to an end what many believe was a shameful period in Scotland’s recent history: the imprisonment of children at Dungavel refugee detention centre.
