He claimed, and was granted, asylum for himself and his family on the grounds that he had been tortured by the Jordanian authorities.
"My spirit is severely distressed for my sin of working for the unjustified authority in somewhat evil way," Mr. Chen wrote to Australian authorities on May 26, seeking political asylum for himself, his wife and his 6-year old daughter.
In an orange jumpsuit like those Guantánamo prisoners have worn, he told news media in Buenos Aires that he planned to seek asylum for himself and the other detainees still held at the US naval base in eastern Cuba.
He won asylum for himself and his family nine months later, but attracted the attention of the counterterrorism police about seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda in New York and Washington.
The New York police say the defector, Mr. Humaimidi, walked into a police station on East 51st Street about 4 in the afternoon on Friday and asked for political asylum for himself, his wife, Layali al-Khatawi, and three children -- two of them adults and the third a teenager.
Mingled with the preparations for the party, the stream-of-consciousness exploration of Mrs Dalloway's inner state is broken by an irruption of senseless violence when Septimus, who is waiting to be taken to an asylum, throws himself out of a window.
After Scott died, there were rumours that Kathleen was to marry Barrie; this was not true, though Barrie's wife Mary had run away with the novelist Gilbert Cannan, who had been madly in love with Kathleen when Scott was courting her, and ended up in an insane asylum believing himself to be Captain Scott.
Zaid Salah, one of Train of Hope's Iraqi volunteers, who was also an asylum seeker himself still waiting for his application to be processed by the Austrian government, was impressed with the commitment shown by everyone involved in the organization.
Faced with regular intimidation by the mafia and mafia-like groups who are dissatisfied with his exhibitions, Manfredi has taken an unusual tactic: In a letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, he recently asked for political and cultural asylum for himself and the 1,000 works in his museum.
Riley checked himself into an asylum and declared himself insane to avoid claims from his clients.
