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Limits on detention

01 July 1994

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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.

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