A Sudanese man who was arrested after walking through the 31-mile (50-kilometer) Channel Tunnel from France to England has been granted asylum in Britain, lawyers said Monday.
Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was detained in August near the British end of the tunnel at Folkestone in southeastern England. Police said Haroun had slipped past officers at the tunnel entrance and dodged hundreds of surveillance cameras before being spotted by British security guards.
He was charged with obstructing a railway engine or carriage under a 19th-century law, the Malicious Damage Act. Read more…
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