asylum

Assisting Sheikh Hasina with her asylum application would be like offering refuge to “a killer and a criminal,” according to BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. “Giving shelter to Sheikh Hasina, who fled...

On Monday, legislation in Japan that facilitate the deportation of unsuccessful asylum applicants went into effect. Opponents of the new system have warned that it may endanger lives. The fourth-biggest economy in the world has long...

In an effort to exacerbate their diplomatic spat, Mexico on Friday granted political asylum to Jorge Glas, the former vice president of Ecuador, who is seeking sanctuary in the Mexican embassy in Quito. The administration of...

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an immigration accord on Friday, allowing officials to prevent asylum seekers from the United States from entering the nation. According to the Safe Third nation Agreement, which went into effect...

An inquiry revealed on Sunday that sewage leaks into drinking water supplies were to blame for a typhoid outbreak that occurred on an old cruise ship housing asylum seekers in the Netherlands last year. The Dutch...

According to the European Union Office for Asylum, 34,000 Bangladeshis applied for international protection in the EU in 2022. (EUAA). According to data from the European agency released on Wednesday, nearly 20,000 Bangladeshis applied for asylum...

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Monday reiterated that Mexico would not become a safe third country for U.S.-bound asylum seekers following comments by a U.S. official that Washington was seeking a “cooperative agreement” with Mexico....

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s nearly seven-year stay at Ecuador’s embassy in London came to an abrupt end on Thursday when police entered the building and arrested him after Ecuador withdrew his asylum. Assange has been living...

North Korea’s top diplomat in Italy has sought asylum, a report said Thursday, in what would be another high-profile defection bid by one of Pyongyang’s envoys. Jo Song Gil, the acting North Korean ambassador to Rome,...

News Hour: Australia is trying to move asylum seekers held in one of its two remote Pacific detention centers to the second camp, a notice seen by Reuters shows, as Canberra seeks a way to close...