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The U.K. granted asylum to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, a move likely to fuel tensions with China after it imposed sweeping security powers over the former British colony last year.

Kevin Euceda believed he was in imminent danger.

London - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's nearly seven-year stay at Ecuador's embassy in London came to an abrupt end on Thursday when police entered the building and arrested him after Ecuador withdrew his asylum.

PETALING JAYA: Sirul Azhar Umar, who was convicted of murdering Mongolian Altantuya Sharibuu, had an appeal for political asylum rejected by an Australian court on Monday (Feb 18).

The United Nation refugee agency has welcomed Canada's offer of asylum to a Saudi teenager who ran away from her family.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada was taking in an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation from Thailand.

Australia's foreign minister Marise Payne met her Thai counterpart Thursday, as her country appeared poised to offer to asylum to a young Saudi woman who fled her family to Thailand in a drama relayed in real-time over Twitter.

The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that it has taken into its care the Saudi teenager who made a desperate plea for asylum after being apprehended at Suvarnabhumi Airport.

The father and brother of a Saudi teenager, whose flight and plea for asylum has made international headlines, will travel to Thailand later today to give their accounts to the UN refugee agency, the Thai Immigration police chief said on Tuesday.

The Saudi woman who made a desperate plea for asylum after landing at Bangkok airport has been placed "under the care" of the United Nations refugee agency, a Thai official said late Monday.

The Saudi woman who made a desperate plea for asylum after landing at Bangkok airport will not be forcibly deported from Thailand, an official said Monday.

Bangkok - An injunction has been filed at Bangkok's Criminal Court to prevent a Saudi woman held in Thailand's airport from being deported, a lawyer said Monday.