Just a few days later, on August 20 2009, al-Megrahi was freed on compassionate grounds.
After her release on compassionate grounds in 1980, she married the actor Stephen Rea.
However two years later Biggs was moved from Belmarsh prison to Norwich prison on "compassionate grounds".
In February 2009 Biggs fell ill with pneumonia, prompting fresh calls for his release on compassionate grounds.
The law gives the home secretary freedom to take compassionate grounds into account before signing deportation orders.
Her solicitor said she accepted her removal was fair but said they had made representations on her behalf on compassionate grounds.
The Libyan, who has terminal prostate cancer, was released by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill in August last year on compassionate grounds.
They were swayed by their considerations about the need to release him on compassionate grounds -- grounds that I think were completely wrong.
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Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 atrocity in which 270 people died, was released from prison in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 atrocity in which 270 people died, was released from prison last year on compassionate grounds.
He was convicted in 2001 but was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds in 2009, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
World Cup rules state a player can only be replaced on medical or compassionate grounds, which has to be ratified by a tournament medical officer.
He also made clear that the decision to release the terminally ill bomber on compassionate grounds was the Scottish government's, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
Megrahi, who was released from jail by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, died last year still protesting his innocence.
And they did it on the basis of their law and their practice so far as the release of people in serious medical conditions on compassionate grounds.
Mr Hague also said the appearance of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi on Libyan TV, nearly two years after he was released by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, was "a further reminder that a great mistake was made".
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The Times, however, obtained a letter the Obama Administration sent to Scotland a week before the event in which it said that releasing Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" was acceptable as long as he was kept in Scotland and would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya.
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