R v Secretary of State for the Home Department

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MR D LEMER (instructed by Messrs Thompson & Co, London, SW17 0RG) appeared on behalf of the Appellant THE RESPONDENT DID NOT APPEAR AND WAS NOT REPRESENTED. ____________________

Considerable detail is given. The judge states later in the paragraph that many Ahmadi have been imprisoned "They are prohibited from holding conferences and proselytising is illegal". The judge refers to a case [2003] UKIAT 00198A where the tribunal enjoined adjudicators:

The applicant had alleged that in the later years in Karachi, the applicant began preaching the Ahmadi faith to friends in his own home; that on three occasions a group of mullahs visited him and sought to convert him and on the third occasion assaulted him. He was arrested overnight, but a friend paid a bribe to the police who released him. That evidence was not accepted by the judge.