Sentences with phrase «finds political asylum»

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America's founding was based on political asylum which included religious freedom.

In 1929 he had founded the Proletarian Theater in Berlin, then sought political asylum in the Soviet Union when Hitler came to power, and a few years later had «emigrated» to the United States.

Though Mengestu may have attempted too much in terms of the social, political and psychological implications of immigration from destroyed countries and the dubious benefits of finding asylum in so - called functioning countries, he manages to integrate these heavy themes into an aesthetic whole.

In 2017, he co-produced with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall the award - winning documentary Finding Oscar, which tells the story of his pro bono political asylum client Oscar Ramirez, who survived a massacre in Guatemala after being kidnapped as a three - year - old by one of the soldiers who murdered his mother and eight siblings.