political asylum

In 1996, Bourjerdi was granted political asylum and went to Australia as a refugee.

Instead, he stayed and secretly applied for political asylum.

Then we thought of this cool thing Saul could do with him to find political asylum in Iran and use that operationally.

The Yellow Dogs managed to escape to America and apply for political asylum in 2010.

They say they endured harassment and surveillance in Britain, where they sought political asylum and lived from 1997 to 2000.

They were all expelled by the Soviets except for a few who asked for and obtained political asylum.