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| Demjanjuk loses deportation case | |
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| A US appeals court has denied a stay of deportation to alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, who is wanted in Germany on war crimes charges. | A US appeals court has denied a stay of deportation to alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, who is wanted in Germany on war crimes charges. |
| The ruling allows for the 89-year-old Ohio resident to be deported - although the appeals process is not exhausted. | The ruling allows for the 89-year-old Ohio resident to be deported - although the appeals process is not exhausted. |
| A stay of deportation was granted earlier in April after federal agents briefly removed him from his home. | A stay of deportation was granted earlier in April after federal agents briefly removed him from his home. |
| His family said he was too ill to be moved but the government has filed video showing him walking unassisted. | His family said he was too ill to be moved but the government has filed video showing him walking unassisted. |
| Mr Demjanjuk denies charges of being a guard at the Sobibor death camp in World War II. | Mr Demjanjuk denies charges of being a guard at the Sobibor death camp in World War II. |
| He claims he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war. | He claims he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war. |
| A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Ohio said it was satisfied that Mr Demjanjuk would be provided with adequate care while being deported. | |
| "Based on the medical information before the court and the government's representations about the conditions under which it will transport the petitioner, which include an aircraft equipped as a medical air ambulance and attendance by medical personnel, the court cannot find that the petitioner's removal to Germany is likely to cause irreparable harm sufficient to warrant a stay of removal," the judges ruled. | |
| Mr Demjanjuk's son has said if his father is deported, he would die in hospital in Germany before a trial could be conducted. |