The country's law did not make specific provisions for political asylum, a government statement said.
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They were granted political asylum because of their status as war refugees from Guatemala.
At that time I was 22 and tried to file for political asylum in Houston, TX.
But each night more arrive, cut through the barbed wire and demand political asylum.
They were told that Mr Wang sought political asylum but eventually agreed (for reasons unstated) to leave.
Hwang's odyssey began on Feb. 12 when he sought political asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing.
European governments that were once generous in granting political asylum have also grown more co-operative with Arab governments.
To escape arrest, Alejandra Matus, its author, fled to the United States, where she was granted political asylum.
She says family members spirited her by boat to the United States, where she applied for political asylum.
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Ecuador says a decision on his claim for political asylum will come later.
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He was granted political asylum in 2003 on the grounds that his life would be in danger in Russia.
Zawahiri urged Zayyat to change his mind, even promising that he could secure political asylum for him in London.
The defecting military pilot who landed in his jet in Jordan had requested political asylum, the Jordanian government said.
It involves joining up policies as diverse as housing benefit, work incentives and rules for immigrants seeking political asylum.
Muhammad Islamov came to Moscow from Uzbekistan, looking, he says, for political asylum.
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The federal appeals court in Atlanta is deciding whether to force the government to give Elian a political asylum hearing.
Her son has been holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since applying for political asylum on June 19.
And questions about political asylum and how it can be requested would be appropriately addressed there at the State Department.
Black South Africans did not find it easy to get political asylum in Britain or visas to visit other countries.
Some may even see a short spell in a western jail followed by an application for political asylum as enticing.
Nine people were charged with hijacking the aircraft, and 74 of its 165 passengers and crew reportedly applied for political asylum.
In 2003 he was granted political asylum in Britain on the grounds that his life would be in danger in Russia.
"The majority of Neruda's friends were made prisoners or had to hide or seek political asylum in other countries, " it says.
She was at a meeting, she says, and raced back so Julian Assange could make his formal request for political asylum.
They crowd round visitors to the camps, regaling them with tales of Russian atrocities and asking for advice about political asylum.
Both men subsequently fled to Belarus where they were granted political asylum.
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The fish was last seen heading for Canada to request political asylum.
Both Younas - a property developer in Pakistan before he fled, seeking political asylum - and wife, Bano, were accused of murder.
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In a recent development, Ecuadorian legislator Gloria Gallardo who fled to Colombia this week to seek political asylum returned to Ecuador Friday.
The boy's great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, applied for Elian's political asylum in January.
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