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CLEVELAND -- A man accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II says he should not be deported because he could face torture in his native Ukraine. The nation's chief immigration judge was scheduled to consider the court filing from John Demjanjuk at a hearing Tuesday. Demjanjuk lost his citizenship based on a Justice Department case against him. "Mr. Demjanjuk's case makes him a high-profile candidate for mistreatment" if he is returned to the Ukraine, his attorney, John Broadley, said Monday. However, the government argued in court documents that Demjanjuk has not shown that he is...

Today: April 30, 2004 at 16:11:20 PDT Court Rules John Demjanjuk Was Nazi Guard By JOHN NOLANASSOCIATED PRESS CINCINNATI (AP) - A federal appeals court Friday upheld a judge's decision to strip retired autoworker John Demjanjuk of U.S. citizenship, saying the government had proven he was a Nazi death-camp guard. The Justice Department said afterward it will begin what could be a years-long process to force the Ukranian-born Demjanjuk to leave the United States. The unanimous ruling from the three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government had provided "clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence"...

CINCINNATI - A federal appeals court Friday upheld a judge's decision to strip retired autoworker John Demjanjuk of U.S. citizenship, saying the government has proved he served as a guard in Nazi concentration camps. The Ukranian-born Demjanjuk, 84, insists he was a prisoner during the war, not a guard. The government has spent 27 years trying to prove he was a guard and then tried to hide his history. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites) upheld the 2002 decision by a Cleveland federal judge who revoked Demjanjuk's citizenship. "We find...

A judge stripped suspected former Nazi death-camp guard John Demjanjuk of his US citizenship without hearing evidence that could clear his name, the man's lawyer argued Wednesday. Demjanjuk could face deportation if US District Judge Paul Matia's 2002 order stripping his citizenship stands. The retired Cleveland autoworker has been fighting such charges since 1977. Defense attorney John H. Broadley told the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals that the government did not present entire documents, only the bits and pieces that supported its case. Broadley pointed to the government's refusal to analyze a signature that belonged to a Nazi guard...

CLEVELAND (AP) - It was 1980 when Ed Nishnic met Irene, a receptionist at the company where he worked. ``One day I was walking by her desk and I saw her name on a piece of paper. I said, 'Are you related to that guy?' She said, 'That's my dad,''' Nishnic recalled. ``That guy'' was John Demjanjuk, the Ohio mechanic accused of being a Nazi death camp guard so sadistic that he was nicknamed Ivan the Terrible. The encounter led to marriage - and launched Nishnic on a 20 year odyssey to clear his father-in-law's name. Through that time, he...