A plane has arrived in Britain to take passengers from the hijacked Afghan airliner back to Afghanistan.

Police have arrested twenty-two people and are questioning seventeen others after the hijacking ended peacefully on Thursday.

Of the more than a-hundred-and-sixty people on board, about seventy want asylum.

The British government says it wants all those from the plane to leave the country amid suggestions in the British media that the hijacking was a plot to gain entry to Britain.

But human rights groups say the authorities must consider the dangers for asylum seekers if they're sent back to Afghanistan.

The Taleban movement there says the hijackers will be executed if they're tried in Kabul.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service