Saturday, 16 April 2022 (YJC)_ Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry called the British government's announcement of a compulsory deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda an evasion of its international obligations and responsibilities, contrary to the spirit and text of the Refugee Convention.
TEHRAN, Sept 12 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a key element of his hardline immigration policies.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 - Hundreds of protesters in Guatemalans held a rally condemning an agreement that President Jimmy Morales' government inked with Washington to require migrants passing through the Central American country to seek asylum here, rather than pushing on to the U.S.
TEHRAN, Jun 4 - Mexico said on Monday it would reject a U.S. idea to take in all Central American asylum seekers if it is raised at talks this week with the Trump administration, which has threatened to impose tariffs if Mexico does not crack down on illegal immigration.
TEHRAN, Apr 30 -U.S. President Donald Trump directed officials to toughen rules for asylum seekers on Monday, including by introducing a fee for their applications and barring those who entered the country illegally from working until their claims are approved.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Asylum seekers who are allowed to leave Australian-run migrant camps in Pacific nations to get medical treatment will be sent to a prison-like facility on a remote Australian island, the prime minister said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Feb 04 -A Bahraini refugee footballer in Thai says he does not want to be sent back to his homeland, as he arrives at a court in Bangkok to fight Manama’s extradition request.
TEHRAN, Feb 03 -The Australian government announced on Sunday that there will soon be no children held in its immigration detention camps on the Pacific island of Nauru.
TEHRAN, Jan 9 -More than 200 asylum seekers held at a detention center in Australia have launched a hunger strike to protest against their living conditions, detainees and activists say.
TEHRAN, Jan 7 - Thailand's immigration police chief says the young Saudi woman seeking passage to asylum in Australia will be temporarily admitted to Thailand for evaluation by the U.N. refugee agency.
TEHRAN, Jan 3 - The Italian Foreign Ministry says the envoy who had been North Korea's acting ambassador in Rome has not asked Italian authorities for asylum .
TEHRAN, Jan 2 - Britain's Home Secretary has questioned whether migrants trying to enter England from France by taking small boats across the English Channel are genuine asylum -seekers.
TEHRAN, December 11 -More than a thousand asylum seekers who have attempted unsuccessfully to reach Australia have filed a lawsuit against Canberra, saying they have been subjected to “torture” and “crimes against humanity” in off-shore detention centers on two Pacific islands.
TEHRAN, November 19 - Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia has sought asylum in Uruguay's diplomatic mission hours after a judge retained his passport as part of a corruption probe.
TEHRAN, October 30 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Monday that Ecuador is seeking to end his asylum in its London embassy and hand him over to the United States, but a judge rejected his lawsuit over embassy living conditions.
TEHRAN, August 27 -The United Kingdom has granted asylum to fewer people over the past year, a new reports suggests, as activists point to the country’s unrealistic high standard of proof as a main reason for people being repeatedly turned away.
TEHRAN, August 13 -An Afghan asylum -seeker was arrested after launching a drunken and frenzied knife attack in the sleepy southwestern French town of Perigueux, injuring four people including one seriously, police said Tuesday.