In February 2000, nine Afghan asylum seekers armed with guns and explosives, a Boeing 727 aircraft on a domestic flight from Kabul and ordered the pilot to fly to England. The plane was headed to the airport, Stansted, where there is a 70 hours stand-off between the kidnappers and the police and they finally gave in front of the SAS. They were convicted and imprisoned for their crimes, but these convictions were later annulled on the grounds that the law was not applied correctly the constraint on their process. In 2004, attempts have been ejected from the United Kingdom thwarted when an immigration court deportation of exposure to inhuman or degrading treatment said, in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights human. This despite the fact that the end of 2001, British troops had helped to overthrow the Taliban in which they said they were on the run.
In 2006, the English High Court that the hijackers should be allowed to live in the United Kingdom as genuine refugees and the right to live and work freely. To refuse entry, the judge ruled they were refused their rights.
The 9 and 25 hijackers family members were eventually resettled in rent-free in London and services given. Has a bill for legal aid, the high cost of this fiasco for the British taxpayer was between twenty and 30 million pounds. The case prompted the condemnation of Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the prestigious organization of Migration Watch UK: This is not an abuse of ministerial power – it is a lack of common sense in the legal system. We have 5,000 troops in Afghanistan, but the hijackers should be retained the right to indefinitely in the UK with full access to the welfare state. [Read more...]