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UK: Masari: danger in Dominica

01 March 1996

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Home Secretary Michael Howard's attempt to remove Saudi dissident Mohammed al-Masari in order to safeguard arms deals worth ?20 billion with the sensitive Saudi regime was thwarted in March. Chief immigration adjudicator Judge David Pearl ruled that Dominica, an ex-colony which agreed to take Masari off British hands in exchange for increased aid, was not the safe haven portrayed by the Home Office. Its history, said the judge, illustrated political vulnerability which might make it unable to resist pressures to return Masari to Saudi Arabia. The judge was scathing about ministers' unprecedented attempt to circumvent Geneva Convention obligations to refugees for diplomatic and trade reasons. The judge ordered the Home Office to give proper consideration to Masari's asylum claim. Independent, 6.3.96

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