HC Deb 22 July 1971 vol 821 c323W
38. Mr. Latham

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to refuse deportation of any person to his country of origin when he risks being executed, or held in custody without trial.

Mr. Sharples

A person is not deported if this would mean his going to a country to which he is unwilling to go owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race religion, nationality, membership of a particular group or political opinion.

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