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Granted temporary asylum in Russia. [39] Granted Russian citizenship in 2022. [40] 2014 Denise Harvey United States Canada: United States citizen Granted asylum in Canada after being sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Florida court for having consensual sex with a 16-year-old teenage boy.
In comparison, in 1996, 328 Venezuelans claimed asylum and 20% of them were granted. [19] According to USA Today, the number of asylums being granted to Venezuelan claimants has risen from 393 in 2009 to 969 in 2012. [20] Other sources confirmed that between 2000 and 2010 the United States granted asylum to 4,500 immigrants from Venezuela. [21]
In 1979, Hoàng Văn Hoan, the Vice Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, was the last foreigner to be granted political asylum by China. From 1980 to the present, no foreigner has been granted political asylum by China. All foreigners who have been granted political asylum in China are foreign pro-communist political leaders.
This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals, not because they were members of a persecuted group. Individual reasons for persecution can be found in the notes column of the table. Year Name Citizenship or Persecuting power or Country ...
Augustine won his asylum case in September 2021, two years and two months after he first stepped foot in the U.S. Now he has one last goal: bringing his wife and his 5-year-old daughter here to ...
Chinese asylum seekers saw similar success, with 3,159 granted asylum. Trump, who will be integrated as the next President of the United States in six weeks, has vowed to crack down on the migrant ...
He was granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year, [5] with extensions possible. [6] According to his Russian lawyer, Snowden went to an undisclosed location for security reasons. [7] The White House stated that it was "extremely disappointed," and cancelled a previously scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Evan Neumann, wanted by the FBI on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, has been granted asylum in Belarus, officials told state media.