Political Asylum
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Gay Russian with HIV seeking asylum detained under Trump immigration nightmare
Thursday, April 27, 2017He has no criminal record, and poses no danger to the public. -
Scores of gay Russians seek asylum in U.S. due to hostility back home
Saturday, November 29, 2014NEW YORK -- Had he stayed in Russia, Andrew Mironov would be settling in to a stable job with an oil company, likely with a newly awarded doctoral degree in electrical engineering. Instead, he faces an… -
Prominent Ugandan gay activist to be granted asylum in U.S.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014BOSTON -- John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere, a prominent Ugandan gay activist for over 17 years, has been recommended for asylum in the United States, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) announced Tuesday. In a… -
British Immigration office criticized over ‘degrading’ LGBT questionnaire
Tuesday, February 11, 2014LONDON -- A confidential internal report by the British government, leaked to the British press last week, details a series of graphic questions posed to LGBT people seeking political asylum in the United Kingdom, including inquiries… -
Club manager seeks freedom from hostile attitude towards LGBT Russians
Monday, January 20, 2014The day that Arkady Gyngazov's plane landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York, thugs and hooligans hired by the owner of the building in Moscow where the gay nightclub he helped managed is located, ripped… -
EU court: Homosexuality can be grounds for asylum
Thursday, November 7, 2013BRUSSELS -- Refugees facing imprisonment in their home country because they are gay may have grounds to be granted asylum in the European Union, the 28-nation bloc's top court ruled Thursday. -
Canada says it will favor refugee claims by gay Russians
Tuesday, August 13, 2013SURREY, British Columbia -- Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said Monday that the country's refugee board will favorably review asylum claims by LGBT people fleeing persecution in Russia. -
Norway refuses gay Iraqi asylum, says ‘go home, be discreet’
Monday, December 12, 2011A gay Iraqi has been refused Norwegian asylum and told to “go home and be discreet.” The High Court accepted that Azad Hassan Rasol was gay and that gay men in Iraq are at risk, including… -
Saudi diplomat seeking political asylum in U.S. because he’s gay
Sunday, September 12, 2010A Saudi Arabian diplomat is seeking political asylum in the United States because he is gay and befriended a Jewish woman, and fears for his life if he returns, NBC News reported Saturday.
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