This is lunacy, right?

[u/PsychologicalBend508]

An Islamic terrorist who belonged to Al-Qaeda and later Isis has been spotted shopping at King Charles’ local Co-op.

Mohammed Yaseen was free to walk the streets near Windsor Castle after he was allowed to stay in Britain on human rights grounds.

Yaseen was part of the Al Qaeda group that beheaded Briton Ken Bigley before joining a unit in Isis that carried out stonings, beheadings and mass executions.

He was released from prison last week after serving just six months of a two-year sentence for illegally entering the country on a small boat, following a near five-year prison term in Germany for his Isis membership.

The Foreign Office has raised concerns he could face ‘mistreatment’ if he were returned to Iraq because of his terrorist past, the Mail on Sunday reports.

Experts have said Yaseen could cost the taxpayer £85,000 as the Home Office pays for his stay in accomodation and his food allowance.

Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary, said: ‘We are paying through the nose to feed, clothe and house individuals who pose a clear threat. If Andy Burnham took this seriously, he would deport this man at once.’

A court in Germany heard in 2020 that Yaseen was involved in bomb attacks that killed US troops in Iraq.

He also served as a security guard for Isis, including during at least two mass executions where the victims included children.

Yaseen was intercepted last December by Border Force. He gave officials a false name before routine biometric checks revealed his true identity.

At his trial at Winchester Crown Court, prosecutor Steven Molloy said Yaseen had a ‘deeper and lengthy involvement in terrorism and Islamic extremist ideology’.

It is understood that Yaseen was cleared to walk around town with an ankle tag and observe a 6pm to 6am curfew.

However these restrictions did not stop him going to Windsor Great Park or to the castle.

Yaseen grew up in western Iraq and became a member of Islamic State of Iraq, a franchise of Al Qaeda, aged just 16.

[u/SafeWill5831]

Why are Europeans keeping scumbags like this one and deporting graduates and open minded immigrants with degrees who want to work instead

[u/DrunkenHorse12 → u/SafeWill5831]

Legacy of world war 2. International laws were written to try to let the world move on and to protect people who had been combatants but also to protect people from governments that would harm them Sadly these laws are really dated and dont match the modern world but there's no truly international drive to fix those laws.

[u/Financial-Tank-2952 → u/DrunkenHorse12]

Indeed. The ECHR needs to be abolished and replaced with something workable.

[u/DrunkenHorse12 → u/Financial-Tank-2952]

Its not just the ECHR that cover this though, the geneva convention, the Refugee convention and 1967 protocol all have rules that apply to it and they are global rules that theres no global consensus to change in fact some countries are happy to see the west ripping themselves apart trying to deal with situations like this which wrtent conceived of when the rules were written. I dont know the answer but I do know we won't get one until politicians on both sides of the aisle are honest that its not a simple fix like "throw on a plane to x country and pay them millions to keep them and shoot dinghies and commit humanitarian crimes"

[u/Financial-Tank-2952 → u/DrunkenHorse12]

The major hurdle for the government is the ECHR, which has been explicitly incorporated into UK domestic law by virtue of the Human Rights Act.

For the 1951 Convention, Article 33.2 provides a human rights exemption which would allow deportation. No such provisions exist in the ECHR / HRA.

And in terms of deportation, the Geneva Convention is irrelevant.