NOUN | political asylum | - | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The process was long and difficult because anyone who made it to the west could declare political asylum.
- In 1986, Ahmeti gained political asylum in Switzerland, where he lived until 2001, and was working as a coordinator of different groups.
- A series of violent encounters with white settlers in the spring of 1877 culminated in those Nez Perce who resisted removal, including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe, to flee the United States in an attempt to reach political asylum alongside the Lakota people, who had sought refuge in Canada under the leadership of Sitting Bull.
- Notably, they allowed Oscar Danilo Blandón political asylum in the USA despite knowledge of his cocaine-trafficking organization.
- Relations between the two nations have been strained following Julian Assange's bid to seek political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London following repeated claims that the US government was pursuing his extradition due to his work with Wikileaks.
- In October 2022, two Russian citizens arrived by small boat and sought political asylum, saying they wanted to avoid compulsory military service.
- Since the name of the carrier was changed to Royal Jordanian Airlines in 1986, the only fatal incident was when a hijacker, seeking political asylum, was killed by the on-board security agent on 5 July 2000, on board a Royal Jordanian Airbus A320 flying from Amman to Damascus.
- Although he formally applied for political asylum, his request was denied by French authorities.
- The hijackers were usually not prosecuted there but could claim political asylum, along with all other passengers who wished to do so.
- He instead went to Germany, where he requested political asylum, claiming that he was a political refugee from Sudan.
- Many members found their way into Cuba for political asylum, where Cuba welcomed them as refugees after they had been convicted in the U.S.
- On 11 December 1991 the Honeckers sought refuge in the Chilean Embassy in Moscow, while also applying for political asylum in the Soviet Union.
- After the purge of the Iron Guard, Hitler kept his options open by granting political asylum to Sima—whom Antonescu's courts sentenced to death—and to other Legionaries in similar situations.
- It is also known that Kevin Plunder has been granted political asylum in the United States for his human rights activism in this prehistoric land.
- On 16 February 1979 Croissant was arrested (on the accusation of supporting a criminal organization – section 129) after France denied his request for political asylum, and was sentenced to a prison term of two and half years to be served in Stammheim prison.
- Some media reports in 2008 stated earlier that Dostum was "seeking political asylum" in Turkey while others said he was exiled.
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