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Qatada
The Home Office has asked the Court of Appeal for leave to appeal over a decision to allow Abu Qatada to stay in the UK.
How much longer is our Government going to talk to the Jordanians to resolve the deportation issues?
How much longer is our Government going to talk to the Jordanians to resolve the deportation issues?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Until 9/11, Qatada was an informant working with MI5. They gave him a safe house and immunity from prosecution. We ignore his conviction (in his absence) in Jordan when it suited us to do so. After 9/11 and under pressure from the Americans, we dropped him.
He still has not been prosecuted for any crime or convicted of anything here.
He still has not been prosecuted for any crime or convicted of anything here.
The problem with the Qatada matter (and many similar cases) stems from the time when permission to settle in the UK ceased to become a privilege and instead became a right. It started with the right of Commonwealth citizens to settle here and has greatly expanded under Human Rights legislation. Few nations outside the EU afford foreigners the almost unfettered right to settle and see residence in their countries as a privilege which has to be earned and, in many cases, can be withdrawn at any time. Whilst foreigners of dubious origin and who have no connection with this country have the “right” to remain here cases such as Qatada will always exist.
peddling a half truth there baz
the judges have no way of deciding whether he is dangerous or not and have not done so
What the judges said was that the court accepted that Qatada "is regarded as a very dangerous person"
So the Home Office and MI5 say he is
The judges accept that because it is irrelevant to the human rights issues they are tasked to judge
the judges have no way of deciding whether he is dangerous or not and have not done so
What the judges said was that the court accepted that Qatada "is regarded as a very dangerous person"
So the Home Office and MI5 say he is
The judges accept that because it is irrelevant to the human rights issues they are tasked to judge