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Demjanjuk loses deportation case

The ruling allows for the 89-year-old Ohio resident to be deported - although the appeals process is not exhausted.

A stay of deportation was granted earlier in April after federal agents briefly removed him from his home.

His family said he was too ill to be moved but the government has filed video showing him walking unassisted.

Mr Demjanjuk denies charges of being a guard at the Sobibor death camp in World War II.

Read entire article at BBC