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Political Asylum

    • Pride in Pictures: Discovering “a whole new world”
      Pride in pictures

      Pride in Pictures: Discovering “a whole new world”

      After gaining asylum, this person is now a citizen and has a husband and an amazing future ahead of him. He is one of my pride and joys!

      Thursday, June 10, 2021
    • Gay Russian with HIV seeking asylum detained under Trump immigration nightmare
      News (USA)

      Gay Russian with HIV seeking asylum detained under Trump immigration nightmare

      He has no criminal record, and poses no danger to the public.

      Thursday, April 27, 2017
    • Scores of gay Russians seek asylum in U.S. due to hostility back home
      News (USA)

      Scores of gay Russians seek asylum in U.S. due to hostility back home

      NEW 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 uncertain future in New York City as one of scores of Russian gays seeking asylum in the United States because of hostility and harassment in their homeland.

      Saturday, November 29, 2014
    • Prominent Ugandan gay activist to be granted asylum in U.S.
      News (World)

      Prominent Ugandan gay activist to be granted asylum in U.S.

      BOSTON — 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 letter dated September 11, 2014, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services informed Wambere that his application was…

      Tuesday, September 16, 2014
    • British Immigration office criticized over ‘degrading’ LGBT questionnaire

      British Immigration office criticized over ‘degrading’ LGBT questionnaire

      LONDON — 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 into a person’s sexual activity.

      Tuesday, February 11, 2014
    • Club manager seeks freedom from hostile attitude towards LGBT Russians
      Life

      Club manager seeks freedom from hostile attitude towards LGBT Russians

      The 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 an entire portion of the roof off the building, heating and air conditioning units, exposing the club to the harsh Russian winter.

      Monday, January 20, 2014
    • EU court: Homosexuality can be grounds for asylum
      News (World)

      EU court: Homosexuality can be grounds for asylum

      BRUSSELS — 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.

      Thursday, November 7, 2013
    • Canada says it will favor refugee claims by gay Russians

      Canada says it will favor refugee claims by gay Russians

      SURREY, 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.

      Tuesday, August 13, 2013
    • Norway refuses gay Iraqi asylum, says ‘go home, be discreet’
      News (World)

      Norway refuses gay Iraqi asylum, says ‘go home, be discreet’

      A 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 at risk of being killed, but it ruled that Rasol ‘must comply with Iraq’s socio-cultural norms’.

      Monday, December 12, 2011
    • Saudi diplomat seeking political asylum in U.S. because he’s gay
      News (World)

      Saudi diplomat seeking political asylum in U.S. because he’s gay

      A 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.

      Sunday, September 12, 2010
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