M.I.A accuses New York court of 'holding her son hostage'

M.I.A has accused a New York court of a human rights violation for ruling in her ex-boyfriend’s favour saying that she cannot bring her son back to the UK until a custody battle is resolved.

The Bad Girls hitmaker and her former partner Benjamin Bronfman have been involved in a legal battle over their son, Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, for months.

In March Bronfman filed a restraining order that prevented her from retuing home with their child to the UK from Brooklyn.

Now the 37-year-old Grammy winner is challenging the restraining order, allegedly claiming it amounts to inteational child abduction and violates her son’s human rights.

M.I.A has been in a custody battle with her ex-boyfriend Benjamin Bronfman for months (Picture: File)

Lawyers for the rapper have filed legal papers in a New York federal court, citing the Hague Convention as an inteational precedent that she cannot be required to stay in Brooklyn, her current residence.

But Bronfman is continuing his own fight to keep M.I.A and his son in the US, and is claiming that it would be unfair for a court to allow the boy to move to the UK, according to TMZ.

M.I.A publicly hit out at the 30-year-old in March, accusing him of using his family’s wealth, Benjamin’s father is former Waer Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr, to fund a personal vendetta.

A spokesperson for M.I.A has not issued any comment on this legal battle.