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Political Asylum

                   

N.Korean Refugee in Russia Makes It to U.S. at Last

chosun.com
22-Jul-2008 1 related
        

A North Korean refugee in Russia has been given asylum in the U.S. Having gained approval of both the Russian and U.S. governments, Han Dong-man, who had been a logger in Siberia, left for the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon. He has...

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Task force flies sex attacker back to Nigeria

independent.ie
22-Jul-2008
        

By Tom Brady Security Editor Wednesday July 23 2008 A convicted sex attacker was among a group of seven Nigerians who were deported from Dublin last night in a joint operation with the French, Spanish and British authorities....

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Maliki appeals to Germany to increase investment in Iraq

iht.com
22-Jul-2008 43 related
        

Eager to attract technological know-how and investment, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq appealed Tuesday to German industry to put aside reservations over security and help modernize Iraq's energy infrastructure....

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Surveillance law vote 'betrayed tenets of a democratic state'

thelocal.se
22-Jul-2008 2 related
        

Benjamin Franklin. On a personal level, I find it ironic that on June 18th 2008, exactly one year after my family and I were granted political asylum in Sweden, the Riksdag passed a draconian surveillance law. I’m sure people...

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The Assyrian Dream

pressemitteilung.ws
22-Jul-2008 1 related
        

The Assyrian Dream Freedom on native ground, a life in peace and the preservation of their historically valuable language – this is the dream of every Assyrian. But expulsion and fear of torture or death is destroying this...

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Norway searches for war criminals among refugees

xinhuanet.com
21-Jul-2008 7 related
        

STOCKHOLM, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Norwegian justice officials said Monday a new check of asylum records from the 1990s has revealed that more war criminals from the Balkans may be living in Norway, according to reports reaching...

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Asylum seekers held even though detention ruled unlawful

earthtimes.org
22-Jul-2008 3 related
        

Hong Kong - About 400 people seeking political asylum will be held indefinitely even though a court ruled their detention was unlawful, a media report said Tuesday. The asylum seekers, including several who claim to have been...

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Number of Under-age Afghan Refugees Increase Dramatically

sr.se
21-Jul-2008 6 related
        

Children playing soccer in war torn Afghanistan According to the Swedish Board of Migration, the number of young under-age Afghan people seeking asylum in Sweden has risen significantly in the last couple of years. In the first...

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Let them stay, eh

ahram.org.eg
21-Jul-2008 1 related
        

American soldiers who deserted the US army because of their opposition to the war in Iraq are fighting a legal battle to obtain political asylum in Canada, Tamam Ahmed Jama reports from Ottawa On 4 July, a Canadian federal...

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UK Law Lords hear deportation appeal of woman fleeing Sharia law

pitt.edu
21-Jul-2008
        

JURIST] A divorced Lebanese woman told the UK Law Lords [Parliament backgrounder] Monday that her human rights would be violated [Liberty press release] if she were deported to Lebanon, arguing that Lebanese Sharia law [CFR...

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