“The Palestinian-born cleric Abu Qatada will resist a fresh attempt to deport him at a hearing of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in central London on Wednesday.”
The Guardian, 10th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Refugee groups fear the Met will effectively behave as arm of Border Agency putting some people off reporting crimes.”
The Guardian, 5th October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman jailed for her role in a multimillion pound benefits fraud ring has been allowed to stay in Britain because of her ‘human rights’.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Home Secretary Theresa May’s hopes of deporting an Italian father-of-five who hit his flatmate over the head with a hammer then strangled him with the flex of an iron were yesterday dashed by senior judges.”
The Independent, 15th September 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The UK is to go ahead with a mass removal of Tamils to Sri Lanka next week despite mounting evidence from human rights group that many of them could be tortured on their return.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A professor who was injured in the London 7/7 bombings says he fears he might lose his right to stay in the UK.”
BBC News, 2nd September 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Along with many others, today I find myself emerging from an Olympic haze. And alongside that morning-after blur comes a nagging feeling that it is time to get back to blogging. Why not start with a man who has watched the last three Olympic Games during what the High Court describes as an ‘enormously lengthy’ period of detention without charge, and whose last bail application was refused as it would be too difficult to keep track of him during the 2012 Olympics?”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“High Court judges today rejected a ‘gloomy prognosis’ that there could be another year or more of litigation before a final decision is made on deporting radical preacher Abu Qatada.”
The Independent, 9th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“This time last year, the first of the riots that would engulf England began. Paul Peachey revisits the victims and perpetrators of the violence, and finds a case that highlights the harshness of the treatment some offenders received.”
The Independent, 6th August 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Where a foreign national was removed from the United Kingdom in consequence of the unlawful issue of a certificate under section 96(2) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 following refusal by the Secretary of State of his application for revocation of a deportation order, there was no presumption that the court should order his return to pursue an in-country appeal.”
WLR Daily, 26th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“More than 100 Albanian nationals who are prisoners in British jails face being sent back to their country under a compulsory transfer agreement signed on Tuesday.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Two high court judges have dismissed a fresh attempt by the radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada to be released from a maximum-security prison on bail pending his deportation back to Jordan.”
The Guardian, 31st July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The radical Islamist preacher Abu Qatada, who has spent more than six years in detention, will on Tuesday launch a fresh bid for release. Qatada’s lawyers will apply to the high court for a writ of habeas corpus and permission to launch a judicial review of his continuing detention while he fights deportation to Jordan to stand trial on terrorist charges.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Fijian man who served in the British Army for 13 years is fighting to stay in the UK after being told he must leave the country by 9 August.”
BBC News, 22nd July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three guards who worked for the security firm G4S have been told they will not face manslaughter charges over the death of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan refugee who collapsed while being escorted on a flight from Heathrow airport in London 21 months ago.”
The Guardian, 17th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Jimmy Makenda Mubenga died on 12 October 2010 on a flight to Angola before it had left Heathrow airport. Mr Mubgenga died from cardiorespiratory collapse after being restrained by security guards. A specialist prosecutor within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has reviewed the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service into Mr Mubenga’s tragic death.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 17th July 2012
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
“The UK Border Agency has reacted with fury to a court ruling allowing a Sudanese asylum seeker who raped a 12-year-old girl to remain in Britain.”
The Independent, 15th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal recently issued its judgment in XX v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2012] EWCA Civ 742, an appeal from a decision of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (‘SIAC’) upholding the Secretary of State’s decision to deport an Ethiopian national on grounds of national security.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 24th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The rule on the exclusion of evidence obtained by torture was exceptional. It was not an abuse of process to admit evidence from security service officers obtained in secret detention facilities.”
WLR Daily, 15th June 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Foreign criminals jailed for four years or more must be deported regardless of how long they have been in the UK, MPs will tell the courts today.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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