Demjanjuk attorney files motion for stay

CLEVELAND (AP) — An attorney has filed motions in a United States immigration court seeking to stop the deportation of an Ohio man accused of serving as a Nazi death camp guard.

A German arrest warrant accuses Ukrainian native John Demjanjuk with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder at the Sobibor camp in occupied Poland during World War II.

Demjanjuk turns 89 today and now lives in the Cleveland suburb of Seven Hills.

On Thursday, Demjanjuk lawyer John Broadley filed an emergency motion for a stay of removal and a motion to reopen the proceedings. He says deporting the ill, elderly Demjanjuk to Germany would be torture.