Asylum News
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Australia is set to deport a refugee from Afghanistan whose application for asylum was rejected by immigration authorities for undisclosed reasons.
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Eman al-Obeidy, the Libyan woman who accused troops loyal to Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi of gang-raping her in Tripoli last March, was forcibly sent back by Qatar authorities to rebel-controlled City of Benghazi in Libya on Thursday.
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Stockholm -
A 52-year-old man who was seeking asylum in Sweden has been deported to the wrong country, after his application was rejected by govenment officials. Instead of sending him back to Iran he was mistakenly deported to neighboring Iraq.
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The recently pardoned gay couple in Malawi has been offered asylum to stay in Britain, reports a news website from Malawi.
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Kampala -
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has defended his country’s actions in providing refugee status for two high-ranking Rwandan army officers wanted by the Rwandan government.
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After $10,000 in fines for homeschooling their three oldest children and having the crying children escorted by police back to public school, an Evangelical Christian family in Germany decided to seek asylum in the U.S.
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Sri Lankan refugees bound for Australia are presently being held in Indonesia, waiting for countries in the region to decide what to do with them. Both Australia and the Philippines have proposed alternative solutions.
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Some 255 ethnic Tamil asylum-seekers from Sri Lanka on board a wooden boat bound for Australia were held in Indonesia. The refugees are appealing to foreign governments to help them because they fear going back to their war-torn country.
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No Border, a European organisation which seeks to improve conditions for homeless illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, held a demonstration yesterday in Calais, France, to defend the thousands of people trying to get to the UK by illegal means.
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Mikhail Lennikov has lived in BC for 12 years and has, by all accounts, been a model citizen. However, the immigration authorities want to deport him because he used to work for the KGB, a fact he declared himself when applying for permanent residency.
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The husband of jailed Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is granted political asylum in the Czech Republic.
Advocate for blind Chinese lawyer says US asylum deal expected ahead of Clinton's China visit
A playwright and her husband who were facing deportation, win an Asylum and Immigration Tribunal case.
Forty children held in adult detention centres while seeking asylum are thought to have received £1m compensation from the Home Office.
 Vladimir Putin says the possibility of Russia granting political asylum to Syrian President Bashar Assad hasn't come under discussion.
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