Political refugees

Yusra Mardini, a swimming for the Refugee Olympic Team, speaks during the Leaders Summit on Refugees during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

6 refugees speak out as UN-backed treaty to help people fleeing war and persecution marks 75 years

The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The treaty was born after the ravages of World War II to help people fleeing war, violence and persecution.

Motorbikes and cars pass through an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Lawsuit says US illegally shared confidential information on Iranian asylum seekers with Iran

A group of migrants wait to be processed between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States after crossing illegally before dawn, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to revive restrictive policy for asylum seekers

The city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is seen on April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu, File)

Migrants deported by US to Sierra Leone risk return to countries where they fear persecution

This photo provided by the Michel Family shows Daphy Michel, an asylum seeker from Haiti who died March 2, 2026 in Pittsburgh, in the wake of her release from federal custody. (Michel Family via AP)

A woman’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

Truck carrying returning refugees crashes in eastern Afghanistan, killing 22

A truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from neighboring Pakistan overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and injuring about 36 others, most of them women and children, officials said.

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Asylum seekers deported by US detained in Equatorial Guinea hotel

Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband’s asylum interview after being detained at airport

Refugees report being handcuffed, chained, and isolated in detention

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Commissioner for Internal Affairs and MigrationMagnus Brunner, and Cypriot Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection Nicholas Ioannides, during a press conference after an informal ministerial conference on the Pact on Migration and Asylum in Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Migrant rights will be safeguarded at third-country return hubs, EU migration commissioner says

Migrants rescued south of Crete walk after their arrival at the the port of Lavrio, Greece, on July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

What to know about the EU’s new rules on migration and asylum as they come into effect

A street scene in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Exclusive: Inside an African hotel where asylum seekers deported by the US are imprisoned

Oliverio Mora Huerta, left, is interviewed with his family before going to Immigration Court Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Concord, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges, leaving asylum cases in chaos

Migrants deported months ago by the United States to El Salvador under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown arrive at Simon Bolívar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Immigrants seeking asylum are ordered to countries they’ve never been to, but end up stuck in limbo

This photo provided by Luo Yun shows an undated photo of Guan Heng. (Luo Yun via AP)

Chinese asylum seeker who exposed rights abuses fights to stay in the US

Swedish Migration Minister Johan Forssell speaks during an interview with The Associated Press during a meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers at Filoxenia conference center in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Failed Afghan asylum seekers need to go back home, Sweden’s migration minister urges

Tiny Caribbean islands reach deal with US government to accept asylum-seekers

Migrants push a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Gravelines, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, file)

The European Union moves ahead with toughening its migration system

Migrants push a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Gravelines, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

UK asylum reforms spark backlash within Labour Party, support from rivals

The Earl Warren Building, headquarters of the Supreme Court of California and part of the Ronald M. George State Office Complex, is shown in San Francisco, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Supreme Court will review an old policy used to turn away asylum seekers at the US border

Migrants push a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Gravelines, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

UK government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration

Garda Siochana police officers stand at the scene of a burned out police vehicle, near the Citywest Hotel, where disturbances have flared outside the Dublin hotel which used to house asylum seekers, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Niall Carson/PA via AP)

6 arrested after protesters clash with police outside Dublin hotel housing asylum seekers

Police officers watch protesters outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, England, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, after a temporary injunction that would have blocked asylum seekers from being housed at the hotel in was overturned at the Court of Appeal. (Lucy North/PA via AP)

Asylum seekers can stay in UK hotel after government wins appeal to keep it open

People demonstrating under the Abolish Asylum System slogan outside the Castle Bromwich Holiday Inn in Birmingham, England, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

UK migrant protests spark angry confrontations as government scrambles to respond

A police officer reacts as demonstrators hold placards and banners as they leave a protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, near London, Sunday, July 27, 2025.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, file)

Officials win court case to remove asylum-seekers from a UK hotel that’s been the focus of protests

Afghan refugee children play next to trucks loaded with their family's belongings as they wait to return Afghanistan along a highway in Landi Kotal, Pakistan, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)

Pakistan resumes forced expulsions of 1.4 million Afghan refugees despite UN concerns

Stand Up To Racism counter protesters gather outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, which houses asylum seekers, Saturday Aug. 2, 2025. (PA via AP)

Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London

Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, center, whose husband, Rami Othmane, a Tunisian musician, is detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, holds a sign during a rally outside the facility in Los Angeles Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A Tunisian musician was detained in LA after living in US for a decade. His doctor wife speaks out

Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, center, whose husband, Rami Othmane, a Tunisian musician, is detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, holds a sign during a rally outside the facility in Los Angeles Friday, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A Tunisian musician was detained in LA after living in US for a decade. His doctor wife speaks out

This photo made available by his brother, Abdullah Khan, shows Abdul Rahman Waziri, right, an Afghan refugee who was fatally shot at his Houston apartment complex in April. (Family Source Via AP)

Texas man indicted for fatally shooting Afghan refugee who had helped US troops defuse bombs

Ivo Freijsen, UNHCR representative in Lebanon, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office at UNHCR headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s UN refugee agency chief hopes at least 200,000 Syrian refugees return under new plan

FILE -A Taliban fighter stands on a hill overlooking a camp housing Afghan refugees who have been repatriated from Pakistan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban criticize neighboring countries for their mass expulsion of Afghans

A convoy of buses carry Syrian refugees who return home from Lebanon, arrive at the Syrian border crossing point, in Jdeidet Yabous, Syria, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

First group of Syrian refugees returns home from Lebanon under new UN plan

Police officers stand near protesters on Hemnall Street in the town of Epping, after a protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, northeast of London, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

UK prosecutors say rocks and eggs thrown at police during asylum hotel protests

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator after he exited an immigration courtroom, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, file)

Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways

People board a Qatar Airways plane, with federal police vehicles in front of it, on the apron at Leipzig/Halle Airport, Friday, July 18, 2025, Saxony, Schkeuditz. (Jan Woitas/dpa/dpa via AP)

Germany deports 81 Afghan men to their homeland in 2nd flight since the Taliban’s return

A person is detained by federal agents outside an immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits federal building on Thursday, July 3, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Federal lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting people at immigration courts

Barbed wire fencing is shown behind a sign in English and Spanish in a recreation yard used by detainees during a media tour of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, Dec. 16, 2019, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Transgender asylum seeker released from ICE custody following order from federal judge in Oregon

Polish border police check vehicles at a checkpoint bordering Germany, in Slubice, Poland, Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Poland reinstates border controls with Germany and Lithuania to discourage asylum-seekers

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