List of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom Home Office has, from August 2005 to 31 March 2009, excluded 101 individuals from the UK for having "engaged in unacceptable behaviour". Of those, 22 were excluded by then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith between 28 October 2008 and 31 March 2009. On 5 May 2009 Jacqui Smith publicly "named and shamed" 16 of those individuals.^[1] As well as these individuals, other people are or have previously been banned from or refused entry into the United Kingdom.

The individuals are not necessarily banned from the British overseas territories, which have their own immigration regulations.

Jacqui Smith's successor as Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, is to scrap the policy of naming people who are banned from entering Britain. Michael Savage (listed below) was the focus of most media attention, as he sued Jacqui Smith for libel on the basis that he had been banned "to counter-balance all the Arabs named on her list".^[2]

Home Office list

The following 16 names were published:

Nationality	Individual	Official Reason for Ban
Saudi Arabian/Yemeni	Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and fostering hatred that might lead to inter-community violence".[1]
Palestinian	Yunis Al Astal	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
American	Stephen Donald Black	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred, which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom".[1]
Egyptian	Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glory terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to commit terrorist acts".[1]
American	Erich Gliebe	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by justifying terrorist violence, provoking others to commit serious crime and fostering racial hatred".[1]
Israeli American	Mike Guzovsky	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
Egyptian	Safwat Hijazi	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by glorifying terrorist violence".[1]
Pakistani	Nasr Javed	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs".[1]
American	Abdul Alim Musa	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting and glorifying terrorist violence in furtherance of his particular beliefs and seeking to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
American	Fred Waldron Phelps	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom".[1]
American	Shirley Phelps-Roper	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom".[1]
Lebanese	Samir Kuntar	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts".[1]
Russian	Artur Ryno	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting serious criminal activity and seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts".[1]
Russian	Pavel Skachevsky	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting serious criminal activity and seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts".[1]
Pakistani	Amir Siddique	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fomenting terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs".[1]
American	Michael Alan Weiner (a.k.a Michael Savage)	"Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".[1]

The remaining 6 names are censored on the grounds it "could reveal the type of information being held about them".^[3]

Other notable individuals banned or refused entry

The following individuals have at some point been temporarily or permanently refused entry into the United Kingdom. Of these individuals, some may be among the censored section of the Home Office list; CNSNews.com indentifies Ibrahim Mousawi, listed below, as being "evidently one of the six".^[4]

Nationality	Individual	Source(s)
Iranian	Gholam Reza Aghazadeh[nb 1]	[5]
Mauritanian	Dimi Mint Abba	[6]
Jamaican	Siccatune Alcock (a.k.a. Jah Cure)	[7][8]
Uzbek	Zakirjon Almatov[nb 1]	[9]
Egyptian and Qatari	Yusuf al-Qaradawi	[10]
Syrian	Omar Bakri	[11]
Iraqi	Mohammed Al Deeni	[12]
American	Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg)	[13]
Zimbabwean	Peter Chingoka[nb 1]	[14]
American	Louis Farrakhan	[10][15]
Israeli	Moshe Feiglin	[16]
American	Don Francisco	[17][18]
Argentinian	Esteban Fuertes	[19][20]
Zimbabwean	Gideon Gono[nb 1]	[21]
Dominican	Joan Guzmán	[15]
Iranian	Mohammad Ali Jafari[nb 1]	[5]
Saudi Arabian	Omar Osama bin Laden	[22]
Zimbabwean	Thomas Mapfumo	[6]
Lebanese	Ibrahim Mousawi	[23]
Zimbabwean	Grace Mugabe[nb 1]	[24]
Zimbabwean	Robert Mugabe[nb 1][nb 2]	[25][24]
Kurd	Remzi Kartal[nb 1]	[26]
Kenyan	Abo Obama (a.k.a. Samson Obama)	[27]
Jamaican	Rodney Basil Price (a.k.a. Bounty Killer)	[10]
American	Terrance Quaites (a.k.a. TQ)	[28]
Thai	Thaksin Shinawatra[nb 3]	[29]
American	Trevor Smith (a.k.a. Busta Rhymes)	[30]
American	Martha Stewart (see insider stock scandal)	[3][31]
American	Jerry Vlasak	[32]

Individuals previously banned or refused entry

These individuals have at some point been banned from entering the United Kingdom, or at least temporarily refused entry; these individuals are either deceased or have eventually been allowed entry.

Nationality	Individual	Source(s)
Yugoslav/Montenegrin	Momir Bulatović[nb 1][nb 4]	[33]
American	L. Ron Hubbard (deceased)	[34]
Belarusian	Alexander Lukashenko[nb 1][nb 2]	[35][36]
Yugoslav/Serbian	Mirjana Marković[nb 1]	[33][37]
Yugoslav/Serbian	Slobodan Milošević[nb 1][nb 4] (deceased)	[33]
South Korean	Sun Myung Moon	[15]
Chilean	Pablo Neruda (deceased)	[15]
Australian	Philip Nitschke	[38]
Indian	Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (a.k.a. Osho) (deceased)	[15]
American	Paul Robeson (deceased)	[15]
Soviet	Dmitri Shostakovich (deceased)	[15]
German	Albert Speer (deceased)	[39]
Dutch	Geert Wilders	[40][41]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} This individual is or was also banned from entering any other country within the European Union
2. ^ ^{a b} This individual is currently serving as head of state of his or her respective country
3. ^ This individual was previously head of government of his or her respective country
4. ^ ^{a b} This individual was previously head of state of his or her respective country

References

External links

• Home Office statement