Re: Those hijackers granted temporary asylum
technically one could argue some (perhaps slightly lame) form of duress. Which I think is a pretty fair point made on this thread.
I suppose the problem is that encouraging people to hijack planes is never a good idea, even if there might be people with sufficiently pressing reason to make it justified considering there are numerous who wouldn't be able to justify their action.
Although I think
1) punishing the hijackers
2) protecting their human rights
are two very seperate categories.
While they should be punished for their crime (and it is a crime), the question of whether they are deported is a seperate one. If they have a genuine reason to stay why shouldn't they, if like every other criminal in the UK, they have served their punishment? I would see a probationary period as some kind of ideal compromise. The clear question is whether we want to make any such behaviour acceptable by any stretch of the imagination.
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