Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 23:22:56 +0000
Canada has granted asylum to a woman who helped Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong after his leaks exposed US global surveillance programs.
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Credit to Author: Justin Glawe| Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:14:48 +0000
‘We were locked inside as if we were in a jail,’ one migrant said of his experience at a shelter.
Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 04:24:52 +0000
California Gov. Gavin Newsom praised San Diego County for helping asylum seekers to address a humanitarian crisis.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 00:25:14 +0000
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she feared death if deported back home arrived Saturday in Canada, which offered her asylum.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:45:35 +0000
An 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she was abused by her family and feared for her life if deported back home left Thailand on Friday night for Canada, which has granted her asylum.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:13:53 +0000
Police in Thailand say several countries including Canada and Australia are in talks with the UN refugee agency to accept a Saudi asylum seeker.
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Two-thirds of Canadians believe the current influx of asylum seekers into Canada is a “crisis” and that could have political repercussions for Canada’s Liberal government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute. Since January 2017, roughly 30,000 people have claimed asylum in Canada by crossing its border with […]