Sentences with phrase «seeking asylum under»

Immigrant advocates say the people are seeking asylum under international law.

Not exact matches

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

After traveling through Mexico under the Trump administration's watchful eye, nearly 200 Central American migrants attempting to seek asylum in the United States were stopped when border inspectors said a crossing facility didn't have enough space.

After traveling through Mexico with great fanfare for a month under the Trump administration's watchful eye, nearly 200 Central American migrants attempting to seek asylum in the United States were stopped in their tracks when border inspectors said that a crossing facility didn't have enough space to accommodate them.

Kent County Council, which has responsibility for a large proportion of all unaccompanied asylum - seeking children, is struggling under the increased pressure.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

«We've had clients in Russia who've been beaten by police, but more often it's vigilante groups and thugs engaging in social cleansing and unfortunately the police don't do anything to offer protection,» said Aaron Morris, senior staff attorney for Immigration Equality, a national organization that advocates for LGBT equality under US immigration law and offers legal counsel to those seeking asylum.

And in the unsettling circumstances the film presents, it is Okwe's morality that prevents him from giving in and, thus, he stands in the way of rescuing those most desperately in need, including the asylum - seeking Turkish hotel maid, Senay (the always waifish Audrey Tautou) whom he has put under his benign, impotent protection.

Still revolting Still in darkness Still a hypocrite Still hammered Still losing Still ignoring you Still back biting Still seeking asylum Still digging trenches Still under the spell Still in hurting Still bitching Still on death bed

A mother and her seven - year - old son from Lebanon sought asylum in the U.K., claiming a right to remain under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights read in conjunction with article 14.

Maddie received the American Gateways 2015 Access to Justice Award in recognition of her work leading a coalition of law firms representing a Mexican politician and his extended family seeking political asylum and withholding under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

The ECtHR rejected the narrow interpretation of this provision suggested by the applicant that as soon as an asylum seeker had surrendered to the authorities, detention was no longer justified under Art 5 because he was no longer seeking «unauthorised entry».

Under Helen's leadership the Humanitarian Group has helped people new to Western Australia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including people seeking asylum, in a way that embraces diversity and strengthens communities.

Findings of these studies are pertinent as they reflect areas of research in unaccompanied samples and direct effects of the asylum seeking process that are largely under investigated in the empirical literature.