A YOUNG girl was released from a detention centre for surgery at Yorkhill Hospital - then bundled into a van and locked up again just three days later.

Now her anxious mum claims the eight-year-old is still seriously ill in Yarlswood detention centre in England and is pleading for her family to be allowed to return home to Glasgow.

Asylum seeker Humaira Qudoos fears for her eldest daughter Waieeba, who is battling malaria.

Originally from Pakistan, Humaira and her three daughters have been locked up for six weeks and threatened with deportation.

Immigration officials released Waieeba temporarily to allow her to have surgery at Yorkhill.

But three days after surgeons removed lesions from her ears, the youngster was bundled into a van with her mum and sisters Maida, 6, and Mahnoor, 3.

The family, who want to stay on in the Scotstoun community they call home, were taken on a 14-hour journey back to the Yarlswood centre in Bedfordshire.

They have now been there for almost a month and face being sent back to Pakistan, where they fear a violent backlash.

Campaigners in Glasgow fighting for the family's release say they are concerned about Waieeba's health.

Phil Jones, a case worker at the Unity Centre in Ibrox, said: "This family have been treated appallingly.

"They are three lovely little girls. They should not be locked up, especially as Waieeba has been so ill.

"They moved them from Yarlswood up to Dungavel, so she could have her operation in Yorkhill, and then took her back to Yarlswood just three days later.

"We don't believe children should be detained at all."

It's the second time the Qudoos family have been detained this year following the rejection of their asylum claim.

They won a temporary reprieve in May and were welcomed back to Scotstoun by their friends and neighbours.

But a judicial review into their case collapsed and they were detained at Brand Street immigration centre on October 12.

Initially taken to Yarlswood, they were later transferred to Dungavel and taken back to England following Waieeba's operation.

Humaira and the girls came to Glasgow from Edinburgh in May after fleeing her husband, whom she claims was abusive.

They moved into a flat in Scotstoun, where they have been befriended by the community.

Humaira is begging immigration officials to let her and the girls stay in Glasgow.