Al Fayed British citizenship claims fail

Title

Al Fayed British citizenship claims fail

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

27 Feb 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:03:56

Description

Mohammed Al Fayed and his brother Ali have lost their legal battle to become British citizens. A High Court judge refused to grant them a judicial review but said the government’s decision to turn down their application for citizenship lacked the appearance of fairness. But there’s a lot more to the story than that as Newsday’s Dominic Waghorn reports. Speaking are Michael Cole, spokesman for Mohammed Al Fayed, Conservative MP David Ashby and Claude Moraes from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants on the case and right of Home Secretary not to reveal reasons for refusing to grant citizenship.

Contributors

David Ashby; Dominic Waghorn; Claude Moraes; Michael Cole

Keywords

UK; Right to information; Immigrants; Nationality; Ali Al Fayed; Mohammed Al Fayed; Ethnic discrimination

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