Sentences with phrase «reasonable fear of persecution»

The question was whether immigration officers who are deciding refugee claims can rely on Wikipedia descriptions of the conditions in the countries of origin of refugee claimants, to decide if those claimants have a reasonable fear of persecution if they return to those countries.

Arguing that Rwandan refugees no longer have a reasonable fear of persecution if they return, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has invoked a «cessation clause» applying to Rwandans who fled their country before December 31, 1998.

Not exact matches

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).