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Latest Jail for Afghans in Stansted hijack January 19: Nine Afghan hijackers who were members of a political group opposed to the Taliban regime were yesterday sentenced to jail at the Old Bailey, despite pleas for them to be allowed to return home to help rebuild their country. The trial Afghan Stansted hijackers jailed January 18: Two Afghan brothers who hijacked a plane en route from Afghanistan and forced it to land in Britain were both jailed today for five years. Nine Afghans found guilty of hijacking Asylum seekers Afghan on hijack plane wins asylum 4 August: A member of the group of Afghans who arrived in Britain in February on a hijacked plane yesterday won his asylum appeal against the home secretary's decision that he should not be given refugee status. Asylum seeker from hijack plane loses appeal Cartoon Steve Bell on the media's view of the hijack View from the Cotswolds From the Hindu Kush to the Cotswolds It's difficult to imagine any place less like Kabul than Moreton-in-Marsh. Cotswold correspondent Derek Brown goes inside the sleepy town where the Afghan asylum seekers are based. Comment Media's message was to send passengers back to Afghanistan December 7: The end of the Stansted hijacking triggered some of the most hostile media coverage of asylum seekers seen. Piling on the hysteria The fallout from Stansted The issue explained How does asylum work? Afghanistan The theories Why hijack? What is it like to be a hostage? 'Ladies and gentleman, there's a young man on board who has a gun pointed at my head' In the wake of the hijacked Afghan aircraft landing at Stansted airport, Timothy Kinahan tells Sally Weale about his own 11-hour ordeal as a passenger on board a seized plane Background Grim history of piracy in the air The story in graphics The flight of the aircraft
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