The 50-year-old cannot be named in order to protect the new identity of Zephany Nurse, who requested protection from international media interest.
Those with money fly directly to the U.S. on tourist visas and, upon arriving, request protection.
His brother, Lal, the chairman of the newspaper, said he wrote to the local authorities requesting protection.
But, it said, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been pressuring "the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions".
The government and its armed opponents blamed one another, each claiming that residents of the neighborhood, Qudsaya, had requested protection from the other side.
Meanwhile, Major Wachaye, who had been stationed in Nizi, north of here, told his superiors that he feared for his safety and requested protection.
Sweden tightened its rules last year, resulting in a drop of two-thirds in the number of Iraqis who requested protection there.
Baugur had earlier given up trying to stave off the administration with its own petition, in Iceland, requesting protection from its creditors.
At a special hearing in October 1871, Robert W. Keate (then lieutenant governor of Natal) found in favour of Waterboer, but the British persuaded him to request protection against his Boer rivals, and the area was annexed as Griqualand West.
They argued that women attempting to leave abusive relationships often sought restraining orders (a court order forbidding an individual to approach or bother the person requesting protection) against their former partners.
