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Stansted hijack 2000

January 2002

  • Jail for Afghans in Stansted hijack

  • Afghan Stansted hijackers jailed

December 2001

  • Media's message was to send passengers back to Afghanistan

    The Stansted hijacking triggered some of the most hostile media coverage of asylum seekers seen, writes Jamie Wilson.

  • Nine Afghans guilty of hijacking jet to safety

    Nine Afghan men who hijacked a Boeing 727 shortly after take-off from Kabul airport following warnings they were going to be killed by the Taliban's secret police have been convicted at the Old Bailey.

  • Stansted hijackers convicted

    A group of Afghan men who said they hijacked a plane to escape a Taliban death squad have been convicted at the Old Bailey.

August 2000

  • Afghan on hijack plane wins asylum

    A member of the group of Afghans who arrived in Britain in February on a hijacked plane yesterday won his asylum appeal against the home secretary's decision that he should not be given refugee status.

July 2000

  • Asylum seeker from hijack plane loses appeal

    An Afghan former medical student who endured 30 lashes from his country's Taliban regime had his appeal for asylum in Britain turned down yesterday.

March 2000

  • Afghans contest Straw's order

  • Straw lets eight Afghans stay in UK

  • Return ticket to Kabul

  • Straw makes decision on Afghan hostages

19 February 2000

  • Hijack Afghans moved

    Afghan asylum seekers from the hijacked jet at Stansted were moved to an immigration detention centre yesterday as the total seeking to stay in Britain rose to 79.

16 February 2000

  • Home secretaries always lose the plot in the end

    Ian Aitken
    Straw's treatment of asylum-seekers appals even the Wall Street Journal.

  • The ugly Britons

    Britain is one of the world's more civilized countries. So it came as no surprise that it allowed a hijacked Afghan airliner to land at Stansted last week, or that its security officials were able to resolve the standoff with no loss of life. But reaction to the news that more than 70 of these accidental tourists now want to stay has cast the country in a uglier light.

  • Home office attacked on hostages

    The home office came under fire last night for allowing former hostages on the hijacked Afghan Boeing 727 to be interviewed about their asylum claims without legal representation.

15 February 2000

  • Freed hostages tell of 'infidel' Britain

    Thirteen men appeared in court yesterday accused of seizing the Boeing 727 at the centre of the Stansted airport hijack drama, while 73 of the freed passengers voluntarily returned to Aghanistan, apparently calling Britain a damp and "infidel" nation.

14 February 2000

  • Home at last

  • From the Hindu Kush to the Cotswolds

  • Surprise as 72 hostages fly out

  • UK negotiates hostage price

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