A juridical concept.
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For this reason the right of asylum was suppressed by the Pope.
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Every convent and altar had a right of asylum for a short period.
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Jewish right of asylum and the somewhat similar right in heathen and mediaeval times.
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Crime and infamy have a right of asylum here; virtue alone is without altars.
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The palaces of the king, the hôtels of the princes, and especially churches, possessed the right of asylum.
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The right to asylum is something any civilized person can understand.
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The right to asylum is in Germany's constitution.
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Too many irregular migrants with no right to asylum manage to stay in Europe, the Commission says.
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US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has accused President Barack Obama of denying him his right to asylum.
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Germany is the only country in the world with an individual right to asylum written into its constitution.
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Any individual who arrives in the State has a right to seek asylum.
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Amnesty International called the plan a death blow to the right to seek asylum.
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If they enter the United States, legally or illegally, they have a right to seek asylum.
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Most are in fact refugees fleeing for their lives to avoid threats and persecution and have a legal right to seek asylum.
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Rights group Amnesty International called the proposed mass return of migrants a "death blow to the right to seek asylum".
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Australians often refer to asylum seekers as "illegals" or "illegal boat people", despite it being a human right to seek asylum.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said the restrictions curtail the right to seek asylum and run afoul of international legal standards.
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At the moment, those fleeing climate change pressures have no right to seek asylum as refugees, a reality that is unlikely to change, experts say.
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Aid agencies have warned that those denied passage and the right to seek asylum risk being left in limbo without sufficient aid against the winter.