Sentence examples for asylum requests to from inspiring English sources

The inability of the German agencies responsible for processing asylum requests to keep up with applications reflects a lack of vision common to all EU countries, each of which has been failing in its own way to help the refugees.

He has sent asylum requests to 20 other countries, according to a statement published by Wikileaks.

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has sent asylum requests to 21 countries, according to a statement published by Wikileaks.

Snowden subsequently withdrew an asylum request to Russia.

2.49pm BST Snowden recalled handing in his asylum request to Russia, and Putin's response, according to Ellen Barry of the New York Times.

He asked Human Rights Watch and Amnesty to assist him in securing guarantees of safe passage to Latin America, and to help him with his asylum request to Moscow.

And since most of the major international media has been hostile to Assange from the beginning, they have used the asylum request to attack Ecuador, accusing the government of a "crackdown" on the media at home.

After an emergency session of the Panamanian cabinet on Saturday, though, Alfredo Castillero, a Foreign Ministry official, said Panama had rejected the asylum request to show that it was "against authoritarianism, fraud, irregularity and corruption, not just at the national level but internationally".

2 July: Mr Snowden withdraws his asylum request to Russia and sends requests to 20 other countries, according to Wikileaks.

Contrary to what has been assumed by various media as well as the [initial] statements of the French Presidency, Baltasar Garzon, director of Julian Assange's legal team, clarifies in the clearest terms that Julian Assange has not submitted an asylum request to the French Republic.

Assange has not left the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when he submitted an asylum request to the country.