Iranian hostage crisis, should he be allowed to stay in UK

[Dom Tuk]

Saw a BBC report in the news, of the Iranian terrorist (hostage crisis at the embassy in london in the mid eighties) who has served his 25 years life sentence and is now due for release. Report states that he will face death/persecution if returned to Iran. Having passed Human Rights legislation in the UK we cannot obviously send him to face death in his home country. so should we let him stay here?? Same issue as the Afghani hijackers.

[devonmanuk]

upon release he should be deported. All foreign nationals who commit crime should be sent back to their own country regardless of how they will be treated

[Glossopswift]

Tricky one, because I wouldn't imagine he'd be safe as houses in this country either. Was any reason given as to why he would face death in Iran?

[Dom Tuk]

As long as we are signatories to the Geneva convention and the Human Rights Act is applied in the Uk we cannot send any criminals of foreign countries back to their homeland if they make a claim for asylum or right to life. It will just not happen and there is a genuine risk that the person sent back will be tortured or even killed. In high profile cases this may very well be true but there are scores of petty criminals (drug dealers) who have exploited this loophole. Read the report in BBC website by Steve Pilkington, departing Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Constabulary.