THE IRANIAN TORTURE GUARD STILL HERE ... IN CASE SHE IS TORTURED

AN IRANIAN prison guard who led victims to be tortured is free to live in Britain – because she herself would be at risk of torture if she was sent home.

The woman – known only as AB to protect her and her family’s identity – spent years taking dissidents to face interrogation and death at the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the powerful military unit that stamps out opposition to Iran’s strict Islamic rule.

She fled to the UK after helping a relative escape from the women’s jail in which she worked.

Her claim for asylum on the grounds she had ‘only been obeying orders’ was rejected because the Home Office believed she had ‘committed a crime against humanity’, and she wasw denied protection as a refugee in thet UK. But incredibly the w woman remains here as judges h have said she would be at risk of torture if returned to Iran. The Home Office said last night: ‘When an individual is excluded from the protection of the Refugee Convention but whose return to their country of origin would engage the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, they are granted a form of leave in line with Home Office restricted leave policy.’