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| Subject: 'Gangsta' rap star Snoop Dogg wins his 3-year human rights battle to visit Britain... Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:14 am | |
| Rapper Snoop Dogg has humiliated ministers by winning a three-year legal battle to overturn a ban on him entering the U.K.
In an embarrassing defeat for the Home Office, the American hip hop star successfully claimed the ban infringed his human right to freedom of expression.
It means that Snoop - who has a string of criminal convictions and has been tried for murder - could be free to return to Britain as early as Thursday.
The Government's unsuccessful legal battle - which cost the UK taxpayer in excess of £100,000 - has been criticised as 'an appalling waste of public money' by the rapper's lawyer.
And the fact that an immigration tribunal has ruled in the musician's favour could impact on Britain's ability to keep so-called 'undesirables' out of the country.
In May, for example, then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith released a list of 16 other 'least wanted' individuals not allowed into Britain.
But her ban has already been challenged by some of those on the list, which allegedly includes an anti-gay pastor and a neo-Nazi.
They claim not only that they have been libelled but also that the ban restricts their right to freedom of expression.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256506/Gangsta-rap-star-wins-3-year-human-rights-battle-visit-Britain--pick-100-000-bill.html |
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