[AlAhram] The UK Home Office said it will be 'carefully considering’ its next course of action about the court rulingNigel Farage, the current leader of the Brexit Party and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), slammed a UK Appeal Court ruling granting refugee status to an Egyptian terrorist who has been sentenced to death in Egypt, Farage said in a video on his Twitter account on Tuesday.
Yasser El-Sirri,
...somewhat more formally Yasser Tawfiq Ali El-Sirri. In Egypt he was connected to connected to the Vanguards of Conquest and al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya, both of which followed Ayman al-Zawahiri to merge with Al Qaeda. In England he found employment as the director of Islamic Information Centre...
who has been seeking asylum since 1994, was sentenced to death in Egypt in 1993 over an liquidation attempt against former premier Atef Sidky, which resulted in the killing of a maiden of tender years.The UK Home Office has contested Sirri’s requests for asylum and sought to deport him many times, but the Appeal Court ruled in his favor last week.
The Home Office said it will be "carefully considering" its next course of action about the court ruling.
"Despite the danger that [Sirri] represents, this man will be allowed to stay in the United Kingdom as a refugee," Farage said in his video.
Sirri, who has been a proponent of
Egypt has called on the UK to extradite Sirri several times. A British government document from the 1990s, which was released in early February this year, says that Egypt asked the UK to extradite Sirri two days before the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, but the UK turned down the request.
Sirri was later arrested in October by the British authorities after being involved in the killing of Ahmed Shah Masoud, former leader of the Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan on 9 September 2001.
Former Tory MP Patrick Mercer has described Sirri as "a dangerous individual."
Besides the liquidation plot that Sirri was involved in
In the wake of the Luxor massacre of 1997, Egypt issued a list of 14 wanted
Sirri was also charged in the US with assisting someone involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. In 2003, he defended Taliban
...Arabic for students...
propaganda videos of an American vehicle exploding. He also called the death of 9/11 criminal mastermind the late Osama bin Laden
...... who is now beyond all cares and woe......
an "honourable" one.