
(CNN) -- A federal appeals court Friday lifted a stay that had blocked the planned deportation of accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, but U.S. authorities gave no indication they will rush to remove him.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected arguments that flying Demjanjuk to Germany to stand trial for war crimes would amount to torture. In a four-page ruling, the court said the 89-year-old Cleveland man had not sufficiently made his case.
"Based on the medical information before the court and the government's representation about the conditions under which it will transport the petitioner, which include an aircraft equipped as a medical air ambulance and attendance by medical personnel, the court cannot find that the petition's removal to Germany is likely to cause irreparable harm sufficient to warrant a stay of removal," the ruling said.