asylum
New York Sun: Court Takes Unusually Close Look at Asylum Policy
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:43:50 GMT | Inform.com China
The federal appellate court in Manhattan is taking an unusually close look at American immigration policy toward asylum seekers from China who ...
UN Protests Forced Return of Chinese Asylum Seekers From Russia
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:30:55 +0000 | China View
Press release, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 30/3/2007- According to credible information received by UNHCR, a Chinese asylum seeker and her 8-year-old daughter were taken by the Russian authorities from their St. Petersburg residence last Wednesday (28 March) and put on a plane departing to China via Novosibirsk. The woman and her daughter had [...]
Court grants asylum over forced abortion
| Findory News China
Yahoo News: AP - A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that women who are forced to abort their pregnancies by governments such as China's can be awarded asylum in the United States.
Forced Abortion Chinese Victims Can Get Asylum in US
Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04:57 +0000 | China View
BBC News, Thursday, 7 June 2007- Women who have been forced to have abortions will be eligible to seek asylum in the US along with their partners, a court has ruled. The court in California was ruling on the case of Chinese bookkeeper Li Zhen. It decided she and her partner could stay to apply for asylum as [...]
Chinese Man Swims To Taiwan To Seek Asylum
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:17:49 +0000 | China View
DPA, published on EarthTimes.org, Sun, 24 Jun 2007 - Taipei - A Chinese man who claims to have been persecuted in China swam to an offshore island of Taiwan to seek political asylum from the Taiwan government. According to the Central Mews Agency (CNA), Hu Xianping, 50, from Nanjing, swam from China’s coastal city of Xiamen [...]
Asylum seeker deported by Australia, tortured in China
Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:14:33 +0000 | China View
AAP, via The Age, Australia, June 29, 2007- An asylum seeker who was denied an Australian protection visa and deported back to China in April says he was interrogated and roughed up by Chinese officials as soon as he returned. The deportee, referred to only as Mr Zhang, had claimed he would be persecuted if he was [...]
Asylum ruling leaves out Chinese spouses
| Findory News China
Yahoo News: AP - The husbands of women forced to abort a pregnancy, undergo involuntary sterilization or face persecution under China's coercive population control program do not automatically qualify for asylum, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
