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Three foreign terror convicts who cannot be deported
A new report reveals up to 28 foreign terrorists have resisted deportation using the Human Rights Act, including three men below
By Robert Mendick, Chief Reporter9:00PM GMT 31 Jan 2015
Baghdad Meziane 49, Algerian
CONVICTED IN 2003 OF FUNDING AL-QAEDA AND JAILED FOR 11 YEARS
Baghdad Meziane ran an al-Qaeda fundraising and support network from his home in Leicester, where he had lived since about 1999. He had come to the UK after fleeing his native Algeria, marrying at least twice and fathering two children. He was arrested in 2001 in connection with supplying false passports and credit cards to jihadists who travelled to al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
Meziane was jailed for 11 years in 2003 and his deportation ordered in 2009 following his release. Meziane has successfully avoided deportation using the Human Rights Act over his right to a family life and fear of mistreatment in Algeria. He is connected to the terror cell that murdered 17 people last month in France through a close Algerian friend who mentored the Paris cell.
Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali 40, Eritrean
CONVICTED IN 2008 OF AIDING AND ABETTING 21/7 BOMBERS AND JAILED FOR NINE YEARS
Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali was brought up by the same foster parents in London as Yassin Omar, one of the co-conspirators behind the failed bomb plot in London on July 21 2005.
He lived in a flat directly above Omar and sheltered his friend and other plotters when fumes from Omar’s flat, where they were making the bombs, overwhelmed them, forcing them to flee.
It was disclosed in 2011 that Ali had been released from jail and was living in a bail hostel in London, free to walk the streets.
Government officials were prevented from deporting Ali due to the Human Rights Act because of the threat of him facing 'inhumane treatment or punishment’ in his native Eritrea.
Ismail Abdurahman 32, Somalian
CONVICTED IN 2008 OF ASSISTING a 21/7 BOMBER AND JAILED FOR EIGHT YEARS
Ismail Abdurahman sheltered Hussain Osman, one of the 21/7 London bomb plotters, for three days after the foiled bomb attack was uncovered. Osman was able to flee the UK, despite a huge manhunt, and was later arrested in Italy, having escaped the country on a Eurostar train to Paris. Telephone records show he rang Abdurahman from the Paris-bound train.
Abdurahman, who worked for a firm of solicitors as an assistant, was convicted of assisting an offender and jailed for eight years. He served three years of his sentence and was released to a bail hostel. In 2011, he won an appeal to prevent his deportation to his native Somalia on human rights grounds after judges ruled there were fears for his safety. The Government it was “extremely disappointed”.
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