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Political Asylum

Why aren’t we letting skilled asylum seekers work?

Margaret Simons writes: Amid all the hoopla about the skilled migration program and the Budget, another significant story has been buried. The Rudd Government has delivered on its promise to abolish the Temporary Protection Visa system, under which asylum seekers found to be refugees were denied...

As drug violence intensifies, some Mexican police chiefs seek asylum in U.S.

By BRENDAN McKENNA / The Dallas Morning News bmckenna@dallasnews.com / The Dallas Morning News Alfredo Corchado contributed to this report. WASHINGTON – Drug cartel attacks against Mexican police have become so violent and so common that some Mexican police chiefs are seeking safety in the United...

Italian and #x2019;s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face

He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. Their romance, sparked by a 2006 meeting in a supermarket in Rome, soon brought the Italian, Domenico Salerno, on frequent visits to Alexandria, Va., where he was welcomed like a favorite son by the parents and neighbors...

Bay refugees fear rise in violence

Rochelle de Kock HERALD REPORTER AFRICAN expatriates living in Nelson Mandela Bay say the vicious attacks on foreigners, particularly Zimbabweans, in Alexandra Township is a sad reflection of the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers across the board. The chairman of the Movement for...

Uzbekistan: Repression Linked to 2005 Massacre Rife

Source: Human Rights Watch (Moscow, May 12, 2008) – The Uzbek government continues to persecute people it believes have any connection with the May 2005 unrest in Andijan, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today ... ... Reuters and AlertNet are not...

As freedoms roll back in the ex-Soviet world, Ukraine becomes an island of freedom

Since the 2004 Orange Revolution ushered in a vigorous, sometimes chaotic democracy, Ukraine has become an island of freedom and tolerance in an ex-Soviet bloc still dominated by authoritarian regimes, and journalists, political activists, artists, and business professionals have flocked here.

Zimbabwe: Botswana Tells Media to Expose Violence

The Botswana government last week instructed its public media to expose the plight of Zimbabwean refugees escaping political violence as asylum seekers continued to flee across its border. ... The directive came shortly after an unprecedented mass deportation of...

Gay Syrian waits for asylum appeal verdict

A GAY asylum seeker who faces torture and death if he is deported to Syria, where homosexuality is illegal, is waiting to hear if this week's appeal for leave to stay in S ... cotland will be granted. Jojo Jako Yakob, 19, fled Syria two years ago after being arrested,...

As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap

A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower. ... Filipp Pishchik says this and similar cartoons, depicting the former president as a corrupt leader who stifles free speech, got him in trouble with...

Chinese men seek asylum in US for violating China's family planning rules

Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States. ... The Bush administration is resisting the male partners' efforts to get asylum, even though the Republican congressman...