Sentences with phrase «political asylum at»
Mindszenty was granted political asylum at the United States embassy in Budapest, and lived there for 15 years before being allowed to leave Hungary.
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In 2003, Sadr, who was studying at Cornell University, won asylum in the US based on claims he'd been tortured in Iran for his political beliefs, only to lose it in 2009 after his immigration lawyer was jailed for immigration fraud.
«No existing sound research substantiates the political claim that giving people asylum in Europe stimulates more flow,» says Alexander Betts, head of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford.
Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five - year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen.
Geers was born into Apartheid South Africa, but at a very tender age fled to London the regime as a refugee, seeking political asylum.
At this particular time of political and social turmoil, a little more coherence, clarity, and if the author may add, circumscription in the EU asylum policy is essential.
Coming at a time in which migration and asylum are topics often used to manipulate the political opinion of the electorate both in Europe and in the world, the opinion could serve as a wake - up call as it recalibrates the EU's migration and asylum policy on the fundamental values it is constructed on: respect for human rights and obligations stemming from international treaties.
However, while the issue of immigration in the US (as in other countries) has traditionally been regarded as a political or economic issue, more recently there is a recognition — in some quarters at least — that there are social and human issues, such as the separation of families, the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, racial anxieties, national identity and perceptions that traditions are under threat.