29/06/2011
Press Statement
Issue Date: 29th June 2011
Mr. Raed Salah and the Secretary of State for Home Department
Mr. Salah arrived in London on Saturday 25th June 2011 using his Israeli passport. He was not aware of any purported exclusion order made by Secretary of State for the Home Department and was allowed to enter the country without objection.
During the late evening of 28th June Mr. Salah was arrested and detained under provisions of the Immigration Act. He was informed that he was subject to a deportation notice as the Secretary of State deemed his deportation to be conducive to the public good.
Mr. Salah was invited to the United Kingdom to speak at a series of public events and to participate in roundtable discussions at the Houses of Parliament with MPs, Lords and researchers.
Mr. Salah considers the Secretary of State’s decision to be without merit and will challenge the lawfulness of this decision in the Courts.
Tayab Ali, solicitor for Mr. Salah, said ‘Mr. Salah was in the UK to discuss the recent globally important developments in the Middle East with Parliamentarians and members of the British Public. To deport such an important and significant Palestinian activist is counter productive and acts against the principles of democracy that the British government states it wishes to export to that region’.
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