Posted on 05/02/2009 12:55:27 PM PDT by wagglebee
An Australian doctor stopped at Heathrow Airport when he arrived to hold workshops on euthanasia has been granted leave to stay in UK.
Philip Nitschke was interviewed under the immigration and asylum act after arriving from Australia on Saturday.
Dr Nitschke plans to hold a workshop in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Tuesday to talk about assisted suicide.
The Home Office confirmed he had been interviewed and was later granted permission to enter the UK.
At no point was Dr Nitschke arrested.
Dr Nitschke said he had been surprised to have been detained and questioned, as he had been allowed into the UK to hold lectures before.
Dr Nitschke, who runs Exit International, told the BBC he had been searched, fingerprinted and formally interviewed after being told his workshops could be in breach of British law.
He said this had never happened to him before.
"I mean, this is a very fundamental question of free speech - people want to know about this," Dr Nitschke said.
"This is an important cutting-edge social issue and to find people thinking about deportation because the message is supposedly so worrying says something about changes in British society which are quite troubling."
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Yes you moron, governments do have the right to not let people who want to break the law into their country.
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