Read more asylum stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/8148/asylum.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:22:28 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72909/abused-wife-wins-political-asylum-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration has recommended that a Guatemalan woman who came to America fleeing horrific domestic abuse be granted political asylum. Rody Alvarado Peña's case has been in the courts since 1995 and lawyers say the decision will finally clarify the rules on whether abused women in foreign countries can...http://www.newser.com/story/72909/abused-wife-wins-political-asylum-in-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Oct 2009 6:51:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69517/aussies-stop-asylum-boat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Australian navy stopped a vessel carrying 58 suspected asylum-seekers off the country's northwest coast today, the BBC reports. It was the fourth such boat stopped in the area in under a week. The passengers will be sent to a detention center on Christmas Island, 1,600 miles west of...http://www.newser.com/story/69517/aussies-stop-asylum-boat.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 6:06:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMental health experts have lost touch with the benefits of old-fashioned insane asylums, where patients once enjoyed a sense of community and jobs like cleaning and farming, Oliver Sacks writes in the New York Review of Books . Touching on a new book of Christopher Payne photographs called Asylum —which offers...http://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68404/south-africa-rages-as-canada-grants-white-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA white South African man won asylum in Canada after a one-man immigration board ruled that his "fear of persecution by African South Africans" was justified, reports the Times of London. Brandon Huntley fled to Canada in April and told authorities he was attacked seven times by blacks calling him...http://www.newser.com/story/68404/south-africa-rages-as-canada-grants-white-asylum.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 7:52:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50931/iranian-lesbian-wins-asylum-in-britain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA woman who fled Iran for Britain after her girlfriend was arrested has won her battle for asylum in the UK. In 2007 Pegah Emambakhsh was refused asylum, but gay rights groups claimed that she would be executed if she was forced to return to Iran and led a campaign...http://www.newser.com/story/50931/iranian-lesbian-wins-asylum-in-britain.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Feb 2009 6:07:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49323/no-regrets-for-us-iraq-deserter-as-asylum-ruling-looms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGerman authorities will take up the case next week of Spec. André L. Shepherd, who deserted the US Army and sought asylum rather than face a second tour of duty in Iraq. “I’m having the time of my life,” Shepherd tells the Wall Street Journal from a refugee-processing center as...http://www.newser.com/story/49323/no-regrets-for-us-iraq-deserter-as-asylum-ruling-looms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 29 Jan 2009 10:47:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41874/spain-rejects-asylum-bid-of-osamas-son.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOsama bin Laden's son is not welcome in Spain, even if he has denounced his father's ways. The government today rejected an asylum request from Omar bin Laden, 27, and his British wife, the BBC reports. Omar lives in Egypt and says his life is endangered there because of his...http://www.newser.com/story/41874/spain-rejects-asylum-bid-of-osamas-son.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 05 Nov 2008 20:18:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41744/osama-son-seeks-asylum-in-madrid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOmar bin Laden—goateed, peacenik son of Osama—is seeking political asylum in Spain, where he and his British wife arrived from Egypt. He's being held at Madrid airport while authorities make a decision, Reuters reports. The al-Qaeda-trained Saudi, 28, made headlines earlier this year when, sporting a leather jacket...http://www.newser.com/story/41744/osama-son-seeks-asylum-in-madrid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Nov 2008 13:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38138/mukasey-steps-into-genital-mutilation-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn an extremely rare move, the US attorney general has stepped into a low-level immigration case and ordered that a victim of female genital mutilation be given another chance at asylum, CNN reports. AG Michael Mukasey slammed a previous decision that said the African woman had no reason to fear...http://www.newser.com/story/38138/mukasey-steps-into-genital-mutilation-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Sep 2008 7:29:00 CDT