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Granted asylum in Sweden after being detained by Royal Malaysia Police and served 22 days in prison for insulting royalty. [45] 2014 Tamara Sujú Venezuela Czech Republic: Venezuelan lawyer and human rights activist Granted international protection status for a period of ten renewable years. [46] 2017 Amos Yee Singapore United States
Once asylum seekers enter the United States they have exactly one year to apply for asylum. During that year asylum seekers are responsible for providing their own legal assistance and representation. [11] Until their cases are approved, and sometimes even after approval and receipt of green cards, asylum seekers are at a constant risk of ...
This is a list of prominent people who fled their native country, went into exile and found refuge in another country. The list follows the current legal concept of refugee only loosely. It also includes children of people who have fled. The people are ordered according to the field in which they made their names.
An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14. [3] A person keeps the status of asylum seeker until the right of asylum application has concluded.
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention or the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who a refugee is and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum.
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Governing junta granted all asylum-seekers safe passage to leave the country Fang Lizhi and his wife dissident in Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 China: Beijing United States: June 5, 1989 () June 25, 1990 () 385 days Negotiated flight to the United States Olivia Forsyth
The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...