Limits on detention (1)
01 January 1991
Limits on detention
artdoc August=1994
A High Court judge granted habeas corpus to an immigration
prisoner and described as `entirely unacceptable' his detention
for ten months while the Home Office and the German authorities
argued about who was responsible for him. Wasfi Suleiman Mahmod,
a refugee living in Germany, was convicted of drugs offences in
the UK. After serving his sentence he was detained by the Home
Office pending his removal to Germany, but the German authorities
refused to renew his residence permit.
Legal Action July 1994.
Statewatch, Vol 4 no 4, July-August 1994