Blunkett fails in appeal to deport Kurdish asylum seeker
The Law Lords, by a 3-2 majority, dismissed his challenge to a Court of Appeal decision that an Iraqi Kurd was entitled to stay in Britain until his appeal on human rights grounds had been heard.
The decision quashed Mr Blunkett's ruling that Mohamed Ali Razgar, aged 26, must be sent back to Germany the first country in which he sought asylum after fleeing Saddam Hussein's regime because his human rights claim was "manifestly unfounded".
