LONDON, March 12 (UPI) -- A Dutch court has refused to hear the asylum case of a gay Iranian teenager who faces deportation from Britain to an uncertain fate in Iran.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- European Union officials said Monday the number of people seeking asylum in Europe dropped nearly 50 percent in the past five years.
HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A family of five U.S. citizens has requested asylum in Finland for reasons that haven't been disclosed by Finnish authorities.
HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- An administrative court in Helsinki has stayed an order to deport a Kurdish woman to Iran permitting her to remain in Finland pending an appeal.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A New York Judge is under scrutiny by the Justice Department over immigration cases in which he was said to be unfairly hostile to those seeking asylum.
ZAGREB, Croatia, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Croatia has granted asylum to a young African woman on religious grounds and to avoid genital mutilation in her home country, police said.
SYDNEY, June 12 (UPI) -- Coalition senators are demanding the Howard government's tough new laws on asylum seekers be changed to ensure genuine refugees can come to Australia.
CANBERRA, Australia, April 25 (UPI) -- More than two dozen African and Asian athletes who participated in the Commonwealth Games have asked for asylum in Australia.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to get involved in the case of two Chinese Muslims now in limbo at the Guantanamo Detention Center.
LONDON, April 12 (UPI) -- A British Court of Appeal Wednesday overturned a lower-court ruling that had barred Britain from sending people who failed to win asylum back to Zimbabwe.
PARIS, July 21 (UPI) -- French lawmakers are considering hardening rules on asylum rights in France, reducing the time to submit a petition from 21 to 15 days.
LONDON, July 11 (UPI) -- Zimbabwean hunger strikers in British asylum centers have ended their protest until the High Court rules on forced deportations next month.
MIAMI, May 10 (UPI) -- Declassified documents say a Cuban exile applying for asylum in south Florida attended two meetings to plan the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976.
LONDON, April 14 (UPI) -- The conviction of a failed asylum seeker on terror charges has sparked a political row over asylum and immigration among Britain's party leaders.
NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Standards for treatment of asylum seekers in the United States vary by location and by the refugees' home countries, the New York Times said Tuesday.
