Sentences with phrase «under political asylum»

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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.

The asylum appeal was made under the 1951 Refugee Convention, which aims to protect people from persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.

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.

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.