DEPORTATION CONTESTED
Lawyers Fight For Soblen (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) | LONDON. August 13. | Lawyers for Dr. Robert) Soblen now planned a legal! fight to prevent him being ; deported to the United) States, where he faces life) imprisonment for spying for) Russia. They'will contest a| deportation order, served on Soblen in Brixton Prison. I But the Home Office, which deals with aliens, said it) would not act on the deporta-, tion order for several days,! thus giving Soblen's lawyers time to contest the validity) of the order in the High i Court. The Court of Appeal re-i cently ruled that Soblen was not in Britain in any legal sense, but merely physically,! having been landed for! urgent medical treatmentj after he stabbed himself on' an El Al airliner carrying him from Israel to the United, States. Soblen’s lawyers are ex-i pected to argue that a per-) son who is not legally in the country cannot be the sub-! ject of a deportation order. In Jerusalem the Israeli Government tonight expres-i sed the hope that a satisfac-l tory solution could now be reached in the case.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29900, 14 August 1962, Page 3
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