2006 Afghan hijackers case

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair called the ruling "an abuse of common sense",[2] while the Conservative Party leader David Cameron pledged to reform British human rights legislation to prevent a recurrence of such situations.

The hijackers forced the crew to fly to Stansted Airport in Essex, England after stopovers in Tashkent, Aktobe and Moscow.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke granted the men only temporary leave to remain in the United Kingdom.

[5] In 2006, Mr Justice Sullivan of the High Court, in S and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ruled that it was unlawful under the 1971 Immigration Act to restrict the men's leave to remain in the United Kingdom, and ordered that they be granted "discretionary leave to remain", which entitled them to work in the United Kingdom.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said "these hijackers committed serious crimes which should make them incompatible with refugee status" and argued that the problem was of the Labour government's "own creation" due to their introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998.

Ariana Afghan Airlines aircraft at Kabul International Airport , Afghanistan . (2007) One of them is a Boeing 727, similar to the aircraft involved.
The main terminal building and satellite building three at London Stansted Airport