LONDON, April 9, (Agencies): The Home Office is pondering diverse options to address the case of Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, after a higher court overruled a judicial order to keep the Muslim clergyman who holds an Israeli passport behind bars and deport him.

A spokesman of the office, which is the ministry of interior, said officials of the department were deeply disappointed at the decision of the higher immigration tribunal which described the sheikh’s detention as incorrect, adding that the court order would be examined pending contestation of the fresh rule.
Sheikh Salah has been in detention in Britain since June and faces legal proceedings intended to force him to leave the country.

Interior Minister Theresa May has considered Sheikh Salah’s presence in the UK as a threat to public interests and a source for fuelling fanaticism and violence.

The chief of Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Sara Colborne, said in a statement that the judicial ruling divulged illegal and irregular acts by the government that sought to distort facts about the leading activist who advocates plight of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.

The Home Office should seek to depend on accurate and substantiated information, rather than propaganda rhetoric against the Palestinian cause and against a man whose guilt was disclosing Israeli crimes and breaches of international laws, she said.

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Police say a middle-aged man died Friday in an apparent explosion at the home in an affluent part of the quiet island, which has a population of about 65,000.
The Guernsey Police force says “quantities of an explosive substance” were later found at the house.
Police says there is no evidence linking the incident to terrorism, and no risk to the public.

LONDON: Britain’s defense ministry says a soldier has died in a UK hospital from injuries sustained from an explosion in Afghanistan more than two months ago.
The ministry said Sunday the serviceman from The Queen’s Royal Hussars (The Queen’s Own and Royal Irish) had been wounded on Feb 3 in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan.
It did not name the soldier, but said he was treated for his wounds first in Afghanistan and then in the UK. The soldier was surrounded by his family at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham when he succumbed to his wounds.
The death brings to 408 the number of British forces who have died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of the war in October 2001.