Sentences with phrase «political asylum»

Other lawyers represent individuals seeking political asylum and protection from domestic abuse.

She is also experienced in claims for political asylum as well as economic citizenship.

He fled to Pakistan during the war and was eventually granted political asylum in France in 1984.

Danh Võ was born on the island of Phu Quoc, in South Vietnam in 1975 and eventually granted political asylum in Denmark, where he was raised.

I also Conduct psychosocial evaluations for immigration (Vawa law, Waivers and Political Asylum cases).

The Church's Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, and Havana's Cardinal Jaime Ortega also successfully negotiated an agreement between Cuba and Spain that allowed 52 Cuban political prisoners held since March 2003 to immigrate to Spain under provisions of political asylum.

We would like to meet and possibly sponsor the right guy seeking political asylum from gay oppressive Russia.

A young French woman hires a man to document her self - imposed political asylum in Argentina after supposedly leaking highly confidential government secrets.

For example, I participated in the 2002 Tirana Biennale representing Greece, during a heavily turbulent political period for the Balkans with refugees flooding in from the Balkan region, as well as many political asylum seekers from Iraq.

He taught and practiced architecture in Havana and was widely exhibited in Cuban and internationally until he received political asylum in Spain in 1967.

Dipen participates in the Firm's pro bono work and has successfully represented clients in political asylum applications.

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.

South Africa's opposition party, the Congress of the People (Cope), has rejected calls to offer Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe political asylum in the country.

The Wikileaks founder has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012, claiming political asylum.

Into this world comes the novel's protagonist, Ka, a failed poet who has spent twelve years living off political asylum benefits in Frankfurt.

When a Havana bus driver rammed his vehicle through the gates of the Peruvian embassy and demanded political asylum in 1980, he set off an international crisis that still reverberates in Miami.

Governments may find it more difficult to grant visas, confer political asylum or otherwise treat alleged torturers as if their crimes could be forgotten.

Not surprisingly, Hague publicly downplayed the threat in his response to Ecuador's announcement about political asylum.

Mindszenty was granted political asylum at the United States embassy in Budapest, and lived there for 15 years before being allowed to leave Hungary.

In Northumberland, a German man went into the customer services reception area declaring he wanted political asylum.

There have been growing calls for President Mugabe to be given political asylum, led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the African Diaspora Forum (ADF).

Deadline reports that Clarkson plays a Manhattanite who takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor (Kingsley) who is living in Queens under political asylum.

For a movie about a larger - than - life personality who shook up the world with his brazenness — and since has had to seek political asylum because of it --» The Fifth Estate» feels unfortunately small and safe.

Wendy follows her husband out of the restaurant where he dumped her and into a cab driven by Darwan (Ben Kingsley), an Indian Sikh who gained political asylum in the United States due to persecution of people of his religious faith in his homeland.

The shape - shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, «born in sea of information,» and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.

Forced to flee from her own country alone, the disgraced single - mom ultimately finds political asylum in Moscow where she is able to resume working as The Human Bullet, a vaudeville act in which she sings, dances before the big finale during which she is shot out of a cannon into a trapeze net.

Darwan was imprisoned for his beliefs in India and can never return, having become a US citizen through political asylum back in 2000.

During his first year in the Marines, Justin served as a door gunner for a weapons company providing security for the transportation of 6,600 Kurdish evacuees from Northern Iraq to Guam for political asylum during Joint Task Force Operation Pacific Haven.

Amy boasts impressive credentials, including participating in the WVU Immigration Law Clinic, where she assisted multiple clients in obtaining political asylum, and a successful appeal through the Seventh Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

On a pro bono basis, Craig has represented clients seeking political asylum before the United States Immigration Court, clients seeking disability benefits, and he has worked with an area nonprofit providing legal assistance to persons living with HIV.

We have experience of removing Interpol Red Flag notices and work closely with our colleagues in the Immigration Group to deploy political asylum claims where appropriate.

As part of their appellate argument, the sisters also argued that applications they had filed for political asylum with the United States Immigration Department trumped any jurisdiction exercised by the California state court.

She provides technical support to attorneys on political asylum, VAWA, U visa and T Visa cases.

Jacqueline (Argentine)(Director & Screenwriter: Bernardo Britto)-- A young French woman hires a man to document her self - imposed political asylum in Argentina after supposedly leaking highly confidential government secrets.

She has served on the State Bar of Texas» Court Rules Committee since 2009 and also provides volunteer legal services to political asylum seekers.

Facing a harsh prison sentence in a corrupt justice system, Gazaryan was forced to flee to Estonia where he received political asylum.

Maddie is a member of the Firm's Pro Bono Committee and maintains a pro bono political asylum and international human rights practice.

Long ago granted political asylum, Janina is deported back to post-communist Poland.

Kleyn is herself the child of political asylum — seekers from the former Soviet Union.

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I have applied for political asylum in Wakanda, and my petition has been approved.

In the press conference, the ousted regional leader also denied rumours that he was seeking political asylum in Brussels, but that he was in the Belgian capital «in order to act with freedom and safety,» as quoted by CNN.

In 1996, my mother fled to the U.S. with me and my sister, seeking political asylum.

And through a series of events that he can only attribute to some sort of divine intervention, he eventually was able to graduate with a combined degree in mechanical and electrical engineering after finally being granted political asylum.