List of people granted asylum

{{about|a subgroup of refugees who were persecuted as individuals|bigger group of refugees that include group based and non-political persecution|List of refugees}}

This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals, not because they were members of a persecuted group. Individual reasons for persecution can be found in the notes column of the table.

People granted asylum

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style="width:5%;"\| Year ! colspan="2" style="width:20%;"\| Name ! style="width:15%;"\| Citizenship or Persecuting power or Country refusing protection ! style="width:15%;"\| Country which granted asylum ! style="width:15%;"\| Occupation ! style="width:30%;"\| Notes / References
1849 \| 75px \| Karl Marx \|{{Flag\|Kingdom of Prussia\|1803\|name=Prussia}} \|{{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist \| In exile in London from 1849.
1929 \|75px \| Leon Trotsky \|{{Flag\|Soviet Union\|1924}} \|{{Flag\|Turkey}} {{Flag\|French Third Republic\|name=France}} {{Flag\|Norway}} {{Flag\|Mexico\|1934}} \| Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army \| In exile in Turkey from 1929 to 1933, in France 1933–1935, in Norway 1935–1937, in Mexico 1937–1940.
1954 \| \| Peter Norwood Duberg \|{{Flag\|United States\|1912}} {{Flag\|France}} \|{{Flag\|Switzerland}} \| United States citizen, United Nations official, employed in Paris at UNESCO \| For reasons of his early adulthood membership in the Communist Party, Duberg, along with several other U.S. citizens working in international organizations, became the subject of U.S. official investigation in the early 1950s. This led to a loyalty investigation by the U.S. State Department in 1953, also his name being discussed in the U.S. Congress House Committee on un-American Activities.{{cite web \|url=https://archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact3840unit/scopeofsovietact3840unit_djvu.txt \|title=Full text of "Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session–Eighty-fifth Congress, first session .." \|publisher=Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. \|access-date=17 August 2012}} During 1953, while living in France, and working as an official at UNESCO (the United Nations Education and Scientific Organization) Mr. Duberg refused to answer a series of loyalty-related questionnaires. This resulted in decisions taken which led to termination of his professional employment at the United Nations in 1954. France refused to protect the Duberg family, leading to their need for political asylum. They applied for, and were granted asylum in Switzerland.
1956 \| 75px \| József Mindszenty \|{{Flag\|Hungary}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} (embassy) {{Flag\|Austria}} \| Cardinal of the Catholic Church as the Archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
1959 \| 75px \| The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso \|{{Flag\|Tibet}} \|{{Flag\|India}} \| Head monk of the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism (Dalai Lama) \| In exile in India since 1959.{{Cite web \|title=Dalai Lama Gets Asylum In India; Harried In Flight \|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040459atibet-special.html \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013024241/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040459atibet-special.html \|archive-date=13 October 2023 \|access-date=21 September 2019 \|website=archive.nytimes.com}} Currently residing in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala from where he established the Tibetan Government in Exile.
1964-1976 \|75px \| João Goulart \|{{Flag\|Brazil\|1960}} \|{{flag\|Uruguay}} \| 24º President of Brazil,{{Cite web\|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-presidents-of-Brazil-2061502\|title=List of presidents of Brazil \|access-date=2020-11-26\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505235836/https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-presidents-of-Brazil-2061502\|archive-date=2020-05-05\|url-status=live}} deposed by the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joao-Goulart\|title=João Goulart\|access-date=2020-11-26\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024110903/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joao-Goulart\|archive-date=2020-10-24\|url-status=live}} \|He sent a letter requesting the right of asylum on 3 April 1964{{efn\|His wife, Maria Thereza Goulart, and his son João Vicente Goulart and his daughter Denize, were sent to Uruguay on 3 April with a letter asking for asylum. With that, the first-lady Maria Thereza Goulart became the first exiled Brazilian during the Military Dictatorship.{{Cite book\|title=João Goulart\|language=pt-BR\|author=Jorge Ferreira\|year=2011\|publisher=Civilização Brasileira\|edition=3\|isbn=978-85-200-1056-3\|page=538}}}} and went in exile on 4 April 1964.{{Cite book\|url=http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3d&tabid=5360 \|title= Parlamentares Gaúchos: João Goulart\|language=pt-BR\|page=127\|isbn=978-85-66054-09-5\|author1=Kenny Braga\|author2=João Borges de Souza\|author3=Cleber Dioni\|author4=Elmar Bones\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129161321/http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3D&tabid=5360\|archive-date=29 November 2020\|url-status=live\|access-date=26 November 2020}} [https://archive.org/details/jango-livro/mode/2up Alt URL] On 21 April he was conceded the asylum and only waived it on 9 November 1976, with the goal of returning to his home country, but died on 6 December.{{Cite web\|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/para-tentar-voltar-ao-brasil-jango-renunciou-ao-asilo-politico-no-uruguai-12031037\|title=Para tentar voltar ao Brasil, Jango renunciou ao asilo político no Uruguai\|trans-title=To try to return to Brazil, Jango renounced political asylum in Uruguay\|language=pt-BR\|author=Flávio Ilha\|date=3 March 2014\|access-date=26 November 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803043610/https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/para-tentar-voltar-ao-brasil-jango-renunciou-ao-asilo-politico-no-uruguai-12031037\|archive-date=3 August 2014\|url-status=live}}
1964-1979 \| 75px \| Leonel Brizola \|{{Flag\|Brazil\|1960}} \|{{flag\|Uruguay}} {{Flag\|United States}} \|Federal deputy from Guanabara (1963–1964).{{Cite book\|url=http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3d&tabid=5360 \|title= Parlamentares Gaúchos: João Goulart\|language=pt-BR\|page=98\|isbn=978-85-66054-09-5\|author1=Kenny Braga\|author2=João Borges de Souza\|author3=Cleber Dioni\|author4=Elmar Bones\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129161321/http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3D&tabid=5360\|archive-date=29 November 2020\|url-status=live\|access-date=26 November 2020}} [https://archive.org/details/jango-livro/mode/2up Alt URL] \|Part of the opposition against the military dictatorship in Brazil, he had asylum from Uruguay from 3 May 1964{{Cite book\|title=João Goulart\|language=pt-BR\|author=Jorge Ferreira\|year=2011\|publisher=Civilização Brasileira\|edition=3\|isbn=978-85-200-1056-3\|pages=544–545}} until his expulsion in 1977{{cite journal \|last1=Leite \|first1=Maria Cláudia Moraes \|date=2019 \|title=Leonel Brizola e os últimos anos de exílio \|language=pt-BR\|trans-title=Leonel Brizola and the last years of exile\|url=https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180311262019353/9977 \|journal=Tempo e Argumento \|volume=11 \|issue=26 \|page=358 \|doi=10.5965/2175180311262019353 \|access-date=2020-11-26\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904175822/https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180311262019353/9977\|archive-date=2020-09-04\|url-status=live\|doi-access=free }} and then had US asylum from 1977 to 1979.{{cite news \|last=Rocha \|first=Glaciliano \|date=2010-08-22 \|title= Um gaúcho em NY\|trans-title= A gaucho in NY\|language=pt-BR \|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrissima/il2208201003.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102151047/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrissima/il2208201003.htm\|archive-date=2020-11-02\|url-status=live \|work=Folha de São Paulo \|place=Brazil \|access-date=2020-11-26}}
1967 \| 75px \| Svetlana Alliluyeva \|{{Flag\|Soviet Union\|1936}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Writer and lecturer; daughter of Joseph Stalin \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
1979 \| \| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi \|{{Flag\|Pahlavi dynasty\|name=Iran\|1964}} \|{{Flag\|Egypt}} {{Flag\|Morocco}} {{Flag\|Bahamas}} {{Flag\|Mexico}} {{Flag\|United States}} {{Flag\|Panama}} {{Flag\|Egypt}} \| Shah of Iran \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
1979–1980 \| 75px \| Anastasio Somoza Debayle \|{{Flag\|Nicaragua}} \|{{Flag\|Paraguay}} \| President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
1984 \| 75px \| Assata Shakur \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Cuba}} \| United States citizen, African-American activist, member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA). \| Escaped prison escapee in 1979, two years after being convicted in 1977 of the 1973 first degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.{{cite web \|title=Black Liberation Army Member, Assata Shakur, Tried on Murder and Assault Charges \| Archives & Special Collections \|url=https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/black-liberation-army-member-assata-shakur-tried-murder-and-assault-charges \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309130220/https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/black-liberation-army-member-assata-shakur-tried-murder-and-assault-charges \|archive-date=9 March 2024}}
1985 \| \| Walter Polovchak \|{{Flag\|Soviet Union}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|Soviet-born Ukrainian youth who in 1980 then at age 12 was the youngest person to announce that he wanted to leave the Communist world and not return with his parents to what was then Soviet Ukraine. In 1985 after five years of court battles on October 3-his 18th birthday-he was able to stay permanently in the U.S. when he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen.
1986 \| 75px \| Choi Eun-hee \|{{Flag\|South Korea}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| South Korean actress \|{{cite web\|last=Thomson \|first=Mike \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2821221.stm \|title=Kidnapped by North Korea \|publisher=BBC News \|date=5 March 2003 \|access-date=20 November 2013}}
1986 \| \| Shin Sang-ok \|{{Flag\|South Korea}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| South Korean film producer and director \|
1992 \| \|November 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt participants \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|Peru}} \|Military officers \|After the failure of the November 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état, most of its participants fled to Peru, where they were received by dictator Alberto Fujimori as political asylees. Carlos Andrés Pérez's government had previously severed diplomatic relations with Peru in April after Fujimori carried out a self-coup the same year.{{Cite book \|last1=Márquez \|first1=Laureano \|title=Historieta de Venezuela: De Macuro a Maduro \|last2=Eduardo \|first2=Sanabria \|publisher=Gráficas Pedrazas \|year=2018 \|isbn=978-1-7328777-1-9 \|edition=1st \|page=142 \|chapter=La democracia pierde energía \|author-link=Laureano Márquez}}
1997 \| \| Christoph Meili \|{{Flag\|Switzerland}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| National of Switzerland, bank-security guard and whistleblowers at the Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS) \| Mr. Meili was a security guard at UBS, where he witnessed the destruction of documents related to World War II accounts of Jews. He reported the destruction, and was subjected to prosecution, also death threats. The family fled to the United States and were granted political asylum via a private law passed specifically for the Meili family.U.S. Congress: [http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_bills&docid=f:s768enr.txt.pdf Bill S. 768: A bill for the relief of Michel Christopher Meili, Giuseppina Meili, Mirjam Naomi Meili, and Davide Meili], private bill sponsored by New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY), signed into Private Law 105-1 by President Bill Clinton on 29 July 1997; accessed 30 October 2006.Swiss parliament, Summer session 1997[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201327/http://www.parlament.ch/poly/Suchen_amtl_Bulletin/cn97/ete/389.HTM Question Schlüer][http://www.parlament.ch/poly/Suchen_amtl_Bulletin/cn97/ete/391.HTM Response] of Federal Councillor Flavio Cotti, who claimed the United States was not granting the Meili family "asylum", but rather a facilitated fast-track immigration. Accessed 30 October 2006. Unhappy in the United States, Mr. Meili later returned to Switzerland safely.
1997/8 \| 75px \| Nury Turkel \|{{Flag\|China}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Graduate student, later Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom \| {{cite web\|url=https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/press-releases-statements/uscirf-welcomes-appointment-speaker-nancy-pelosi-nury-turkel-us\|title=USCIRF Welcomes Appointment by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Nury Turkel to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom\|date=26 May 2020\|access-date=22 July 2020\|website=United States Commission on International Religious Freedom}}{{cite web\|url=https://www.uscirf.gov/nury-turkel-commissioner\|title=Nury Turkel, Commissioner\|website=United States Commission on International Religious Freedom\|date=26 May 2020 \|access-date=20 July 2020}}{{cite web \|author=Leigh Hartman \|date=23 June 2020 \|title=Once interned in China, Uyghur American fights for religious freedom \|url=https://dk.usembassy.gov/uyghur-american-fights-for-religious-freedom/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002054155/https://dk.usembassy.gov/uyghur-american-fights-for-religious-freedom/ \|archive-date=2 October 2023 \|access-date=20 July 2020 \|website=U.S. Embassy in Denmark}}{{cite web \|date=26 May 2020 \|title=ICT welcomes Nury Turkel's appointment to US religious freedom commission \|url=https://savetibet.org/ict-welcomes-nury-turkels-appointment-to-us-religious-freedom-commission/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108172804/https://savetibet.org/ict-welcomes-nury-turkels-appointment-to-us-religious-freedom-commission/ \|archive-date=8 November 2023 \|access-date=20 July 2020 \|website=International Campaign for Tibet}}
1999–2004, 2007 \| 75px \| Alex Konanykhin and his wife \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Russian entrepreneur, former banker \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
2001 \| 75px \| Mohamed El Ghanem \|{{Flag\|Egypt}} \|{{Flag\|Switzerland}} \| Former officer of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, lawyer, Doctor of Law and Professor. \| Several years after receiving refugee status in Switzerland, Dr. El Ghanem later was arbitrarily detained without charge for refusing to collaborate with Swiss Federal Police in a spying project on local Muslim community. He remained detained without trial for six years. He was released into a hospital in Geneva, under control of the Prosecutor's office: He had brain damage from forced drugging in prison. As of 2023, his whereabouts are unknown.
2001 \| \|Alexander Litvinenko \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| Former officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB) \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
2002 \| 83x83px \| Pedro Carmona \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|Colombia}} \| Venezuelan businessman, declared interim President of Venezuela during the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt \|{{cite web \|date=27 May 2002 \|title=Venezuelan coup leader given asylum \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2009907.stm \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729203306/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2009907.stm \|archive-date=29 July 2023 \|access-date=20 November 2013 \|publisher=BBC News}}
2003 \| \| Akhmed Zakayev \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| Former Deputy Prime Minister and the current Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
2003 \| \| Boris Berezovsky \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \| Former Russian government official, businessman and mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
2004 \| \| Ilyas Akhmadov \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Former politician and foreign minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria \|{{Cite web \|last=Reynolds \|first=Maura \|date=2004-08-06 \|title=U.S. Asylum for Chechen Draws Protest From Russia \|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-06-na-russian6-story.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064656/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-06-na-russian6-story.html \|archive-date=6 June 2023 \|access-date=2024-04-20 \|website=Los Angeles Times \|language=en-US}}
2005 \| 75px \| Bobby Fischer \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Iceland}} \| Chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion, chess author \| {{cite news \|last1=Weber \|first1=Bruce \|date=19 January 2008 \|title=Bobby Fischer, Troubled Genius of Chess, Dies at 64 \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326075526/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html \|archive-date=26 March 2024 \|work=The New York Times}}{{cite web \|date=11 May 2023 \|title=Bobby Fischer \| Biography & Facts \| Britannica \|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bobby-Fischer \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119182640/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bobby-Fischer \|archive-date=19 January 2024}}
2007 \| 75px \| John Robles \|{{Flag\|United States}} {{Flag\|Puerto Rico}} \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \| Leak site owner, English teacher, investigative journalist, writer, US foreign policy critic, publisher. \| John Anthony Robles II is a Taino Indian born in Puerto Rico. He was the first and reportedly only ex-US citizen granted full asylum (along with his children) in the Russian Federation. In 2007 after being told to close his site, his US Passport was revoked by then Ambassador William Burns using the false claim that he owed the USA child support for his children in Russia and thus he was left stateless. John worked for the Russian Government and was granted asylum along with his two US born American children. John left the US in 1995 after attempting to expose CPS child trafficking and initiating the formation of a Grand Jury. On the day the Grand Jury was to convene with Robles providing testimony John was detained but not charged and accused of working for the KGB and the Russians. He was forced to leave the US with his children of whom he had full custody and to seek asylum.{{cite news \|last=Lally \|first=Kathy \|date=19 July 2013 \|title=Snowden could follow path of U.S. asylum-seekers who led unhappy lives in Russia \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/us-asylum-seekers-unhappy-in-russia/2013/07/18/ced32748-eee8-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html?noredirect=on \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308064403/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/us-asylum-seekers-unhappy-in-russia/2013/07/18/ced32748-eee8-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html \|archive-date=8 March 2023 \|access-date=26 December 2018 \|newspaper=The Washington Post}} Robles was a correspondent, newsreader and political commentator for the Voice of Russia and quoted worldwide {{cite news\|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/30/russian-press-rips-romney-and-his-promise-of-republican-hell/\|title=Romney and his promise of 'Republican hell'\|work=Foreign Policy}} After 17 years he was granted Russian citizenship by President Putin in a decree signed on October 21, 2024.
2007 \| 75px \| Irakli Okruashvili \|{{Flag\|Georgia}} \|{{Flag\|France}} \| Georgian politician \| {{citation needed\|date=June 2013}}
2008 \| \| Chere Lyn Tomayko \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Costa Rica}} \| United States citizen \| Chere Lyn Tomayko, wanted in the United States for parental kidnapping, was granted asylum in June 2008 by Costa Rica. Tomayko's claims that her actions were justified by domestic violence she suffered were taken into account by the Costa Rican authorities.{{cite news \|date=26 July 2008 \|title=Wanted US woman freed in Costa Rica \|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-07-25-3841863361_x.htm \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205085008/http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-07-25-3841863361_x.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=5 February 2013 \|newspaper=USA Today}}
2008 \| \| Nixon Moreno \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|Holy See}} \| \|{{Cite web \|date=17 September 2007 \|title=The Vatican grants asylum to Nixon Moreno \|url=https://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/17/en_pol_art_the-vatican-grants-a_17A1993925.shtml \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141404/http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/17/en_pol_art_the-vatican-grants-a_17A1993925 \|archive-date=5 March 2016 \|access-date=2024-04-20 \|website=www.eluniversal.com}}
2009 \| 75px \| Manuel Rosales \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|Peru}} \| Venezuelan educator and politician \| {{cite news \|date=2009-04-28 \|title=Venezuela recalls envoy in Peru \|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021946.stm \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110125240/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021946.stm \|archive-date=10 January 2024 \|access-date=2010-02-01 \|publisher=BBC News}}
2010 \| 75px \| Virginia Vallejo \|{{Flag\|Colombia}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Colombian writer, journalist, columnist, media personality, television anchorwoman,{{YouTube\|SKbQpDO09q4\|Virginia Vallejo, anchorwoman 1994 }}, and socialite \|Biography of the political asylee{{cite web \|date=8 February 2018 \|title=Biography of the political asylee Virginia Vallejo \|url=http://www.virginiavallejo.com/en/biografia-de-virginia-vallejo/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216042723/https://virginiavallejo.com/en/biografia-de-virginia-vallejo/ \|archive-date=16 December 2023 \|access-date=2018-04-30}}
2011 \| \| Savva Terentyev \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|Estonia}} \| Russian blogger and musician \|{{citation needed\|date=April 2023}}
2011 \| \| Al-Saadi Gaddafi \|{{Flag\|Libya}} \|{{Flag\|Niger}} \| Third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; Libyan former association football player \|
2012 \| 75px \| Julian Assange \|{{Flag\|Australia}} {{Flag\|Sweden}} {{Flag\|United Kingdom}} {{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Ecuador}} (embassy) \| Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist \| Assange was granted asylum in 2010 by Ecuador while in the U.K.: He was harbored in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.[http://www.mmrree.gob.ec/2012/com042.asp Declaración del Gobierno de la República del Ecuador sobre la solicitud de asilo de Julian Assange]. {{in lang\|es}} ({{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817230534/http://www.mmrree.gob.ec/2012/com042.asp \|date=17 August 2012 }}) Ecuador rescinded Assange's asylum status and citizenship in 2019.{{cite web \|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/ecuador-revokes-wikileaks-founder-julian-assanges-citizenship \|title=Ecuador revokes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's citizenship \|quote=Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to the US, but his asylum status was later revoked \|website=Al Jazeera \|date=28 Jul 2021}} Between April 2019-June 2024 Assange was imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh prison fighting extradition to the United States. In June 2024, Assange agreed to a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents in return for a sentence of time served.{{cite news\|url=https://apnews.com/article/assange-justice-department-plea-wikileaks-saipan-australia-00eb380879ff636cc9b916f82f82ed40\|title=WikiLeaks' Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fight\|first1=Mari\|last1=Yamaguchi\|first2=Alanna Durkin\|last2=Richer\|first3=Kimberly\|last3=Esmores\|first4=Eric\|last4=Tucker\|publisher=Associated Press\|date=25 June 2024\|access-date=25 June 2024}}
2012 \| \| Alexander Barankov \|{{Flag\|Belarus}} \|{{Flag\|Ecuador}} \| Belarusian former policeman or army captain \|{{cite web \|title="Платформа" папрасіла Эквадор не выдаваць Баранкова \|language=Belarusian \|publisher=Belsat TV \|date=26 June 2012 \|url=http://belsat.eu/be/wiadomosci/a,8916,platforma-paprasila-ekvador-nie-vydavats-barankova.html \|access-date=20 August 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203032730/http://belsat.eu/be/wiadomosci/a,8916,platforma-paprasila-ekvador-nie-vydavats-barankova.html \|archive-date=3 February 2014 \|url-status=dead }}{{cite news \|title=Corte analiza la extradición de bielorruso \|date=15 August 2012 \|publisher=Expreso (Ecuador) \|url=http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=3597389&idcat=19408&tipo=2 \|access-date=20 August 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824151034/http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=3597389&idcat=19408&tipo=2 \|archive-date=24 August 2012 \|url-status=dead }}{{cite news\|first=Stephan \|last=Küffner \|author2=Megan Gibson \|title=Assange's Special Asylum: Why Ecuador Isn't Nice to Anyone Else \|date=16 July 2012 \|publisher=Time \|url=https://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/ \|access-date=20 August 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821031007/http://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/ \|archive-date=21 August 2012 \|url-status=live }}
2012 \| \| Safia Farkash \|{{Flag\|Libya}} \|{{Flag\|Oman}} \| Widow of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and former First Lady of Libya \|
2012 \| \| Muhammad Gaddafi \|{{Flag\|Libya}} \|{{Flag\|Oman}} \| Eldest son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; chairman of the General Posts and Telecommunications Company \|
2012 \| \| Ayesha Gaddafi \|{{Flag\|Libya}} \|{{Flag\|Oman}} \| Fifth child and only daughter of former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; Libyan mediator and military official, former UN Goodwill Ambassador, and lawyer \|
2012 \| \| Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi \|{{Flag\|Libya}} \|{{Flag\|Oman}} \| Fifth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; first consultant to the Management Committee of the General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) of Libya \|
2013 \| 75px \| Edward Snowden \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \| United States citizen; CIA Officer. Former Booz Allen Hamilton employee worked as a system administrator under an NSA contract. \| Granted temporary asylum in Russia.{{cite web\|url=https://wikileaks.org/Statement-on-Snowden-s-Successful.html \|title=Statement on Snowden's Successful Russian Asylum Bid \|date=1 August 2013 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803060019/http://www.wikileaks.org/Statement-on-Snowden-s-Successful.html \|archive-date=3 August 2013 \|url-status=live }} Granted Russian citizenship in 2022.{{cite web\|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/europe/edward-snowden-russia-residency-intl/index.html \|title=Putin grants Russian citizenship to former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden\|last=Macias\|first=Amanda\|date=22 September 2022\|website=CNBC\|access-date=13 October 2022}}
2014 \| \| Denise Harvey \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Canada}} \| United States citizen \| Granted asylum in Canada after being sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Florida court for having consensual sex with a 16-year-old teenage boy. The crime she was convicted of is not a crime in Canada (i.e., consensual sex between a 16-year-old and an adult not in a position of authority with respect to the teen) and the Canadian Immigration and Review Board ruled that the 30-year sentence was "cruel and unusual punishment".{{cite web\|title=Florida sex offender granted asylum in Canada\|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/florida-sex-offender-granted-asylum-in-canada-1.2646061\|website=cbc.ca\|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\|access-date=16 May 2014}}{{cite news\|last1=Clarke\|first1=Katrina\|title=Florida sex-offender who had relations with 16-year-old granted refugee status in Canada\|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/florida-sex-offender-who-had-relations-with-16-year-old-granted-refugee-status-in-canada\|access-date=6 September 2015\|work=The National Post\|publisher=National Post\|date=15 May 2014}}{{cite web\|last1=Merti\|first1=Steve\|title=Was Canada right to grant asylum to a U.S. sex offender?\|url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/canada-grant-asylum-u-woman-facing-30-sentence-202822436.html\|website=Yahoo! News Canada\|date=19 May 2014 \|publisher=Yahoo! News\|access-date=6 September 2015}}
2014 \| \| Suren Gazaryan \|{{Flag\|Russia}} \|{{Flag\|Estonia}} \| Russian citizen, Green activist \| Goldman Prize recipient in 2014{{cite web\|url=http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/suren-gazaryan\|title=Goldman Prize Recipient Suren Gazaryan\|date=29 May 2014}}
2014 \| \| Ali Abd Jalil \|{{Flag\|Malaysia}} \|{{Flag\|Sweden}} \| Malaysian citizen, student activist \| Granted asylum in Sweden after being detained by Royal Malaysia Police and served 22 days in prison for insulting royalty.{{cite news\|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/malaysia-activist-whose-passport-was-revoked-says-he-has-been-issued\|title=Malaysia activist whose passport was revoked says he has been issued asylum card by Sweden\|newspaper=The Straits Times \|date=9 December 2014}}
2014 \|95x95px \|Tamara Sujú \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|Czech Republic}} \|Venezuelan lawyer and human rights activist \|Granted international protection status for a period of ten renewable years.{{cite news\|date=25 November 2014\|title=Tamara Suju recibe asilo político en la República Checa\|language=es-ES\|agency=El Universal\|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/141125/tamara-suju-recibe-asilo-politico-en-la-republica-checa\|access-date=14 April 2017}}
2017 \| \| Amos Yee \|{{Flag\|Singapore}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \| Singaporean blogger \| Charged by the State Courts of Singapore after posting videos critical of religious communities in Singapore, and of Lee Kuan Yew. Later granted asylum in the United States.{{Cite web\|last=hermes\|date=2020-10-18\|title=Amos Yee faces deportation if convicted of child porn charges\|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/amos-yee-faces-deportation-if-convicted-of-child-porn-charges\|access-date=2020-10-18\|website=The Straits Times\|language=en\|archive-date=18 October 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018224845/http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/amos-yee-faces-deportation-if-convicted-of-child-porn-charges\|url-status=live}}
2018 \| 75px \| Nikola Gruevski \|{{Flag\|Macedonia}} \|{{Flag\|Hungary}} \| Macedonian citizen, former Prime minister of Macedonia \| {{cite news\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-macedonian-leader/2018/11/20/829acc40-ecd1-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120171942/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-macedonian-leader/2018/11/20/829acc40-ecd1-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=20 November 2018\|title=Report: Hungary grants asylum to former Macedonian leader\|newspaper=The Washington Post \|date=20 November 2018}}
2018 \| \|Rosmit Mantilla \|{{Flag\|Venezuela}} \|{{Flag\|France}} \|National Assembly deputy \|{{Cite web\|date=2018-06-05\|title=Rosmit Mantilla, asilado en Francia, compartió su historia tras pasar dos años en El Helicoide\|url=https://efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/rosmit-mantilla-asilado-en-francia-compartio-su-historia-tras-pasar-dos-anos-en-el-helicoide/\|access-date=2022-02-19\|website=Efecto Cocuyo\|language=es}}
2019 \| 75px \| Evo Morales \|{{Flag\|Bolivia}} \|{{Flag\|Mexico}} \| Bolivian citizen, former President of Bolivia \| {{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50383608\|title=Report: Bolivia crisis: Evo Morales accepts political asylum in Mexico\|work=BBC News \|date=12 November 2019}}
2020 \| \|Christopher Mark Doyon aka Commander X \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|{{Flag\|Mexico}} \|US Citizen, Activist/Author \|First US citizen in history to receive political asylum in Mexico. Granted refugee status for acts associated with Anonymous, and his support of Julian Assange & WikiLeaks.[https://www.dineroenimagen.com/paul-lara/mexico-dara-asilo-al-comandante-x/121538 Article in Dinero En Imagen] Doyen was granted humanitarian protection status, but Mexico did not provide real protection from U.S. removal-requests for Doyen: In 2021, a multi-agency team of American, Mexican and intergovernmental authorities (including the Mexican National Police, the U.S. FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the US State Department and Interpol){{cite press release \|url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-mountain-view-resident-christopher-doyon-apprehended-mexico-and-returned-united \|title=Former Mountain View Resident Christopher Doyon Apprehended In Mexico And Returned To The United States \|date=June 15, 2021 \|publisher=U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California}} stormed the compound in which he resided in Mexico city and deported him without a hearing. He was presented to U.S. authorities in Northern California, where he pled guilty (via plea-deal) to hacking the city of Santa Cruz, was imprisoned for about a year; he was released, in 2022.{{cite web \|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ddos-fugitive-commander-x-arrested-in-mexico-extradited-to-us/ \|title=Ten-year hacktivist fugitive Commander X arrested in Mexico \|author=Nate Anderson \|date=2021-06-16 \|website=Ars Technica}}
2021 \|75px \|Nathan Law \|{{Flag\|China}} ({{Flag\|Hong Kong}} resident) \|{{Flag\|United Kingdom}} \|Hong Kong resident, politician and activist \|Self Exiled in United Kingdom after China's increasing control over Hong Kong.{{cite news \|last=Davidson \|first=Helen \|date=9 April 2021 \|title=China blasts UK for granting asylum to Hong Kong activist Nathan Law \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409055209/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law \|archive-date=9 April 2021 \|access-date=20 October 2021 \|newspaper=The Guardian}}
2021 \|75px \|Tuhin Das \|{{Flag\|Bangladesh}} \|{{Flag\|United States}} \|Bengali Writer, Activist \|Exiled in 2016 for speaking out against Islamic fundamentalism. Granted Asylum in the United States.{{cite web \|url=https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/people-in-america-tuhin-das/3724696.html\|title=Tuhin Das: Poet, Activist and Writer in Exile\|date=15 February 2017\|website=Voice of America\|access-date=13 October 2022}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2022-06-21/dissident-bangladeshi-writer-pittsburgh-city-asylum-new-poetry-collection \|title=Dissident Bangladeshi writer explores homesickness, and Pittsburgh, in new poetry collection\|last=O'Driscoll\|first=Bill \|date=21 June 2022\|website=WESA (FM)\|access-date=14 October 2022\|quote=}}
2022 \|75px \|Rafael Correa \|{{Flag\|Ecuador}} \|{{Flag\|Belgium}} \|Former President of Ecuador \|In 2022, Ecuador's Court President began extradition request seeking the return of former President Rafael Correa, who lives in Belgium and in 2020 was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison on bribery allegations.. extradition was refused and he was granted asylum in Belgium.{{cite web\|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/22/ecuador-begins-effort-to-extradite-rafael-correa-from-belgium\|title=Ecuador begins effort to extradite Rafael Correa from Belgium\|date=22 April 2022\|website=Al Jazeera\|access-date=5 February 2024}}{{cite web \|url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/ecuador-ex-president-correa-says-belgian-asylum-attests-to-innocence \|title=Ecuador ex-president Correa says Belgian asylum attests to innocence\|agency=Associated France Press (AFP)\|date=28 April 2022\|website=RFI \|access-date=5 February 2024}}
2024 \| 75px \| Jorge Glas \| {{Flag\|Ecuador}} \| {{Flag\|Mexico}} \| Former Vice President of Ecuador \| Jorge Glas was granted political asylum by Mexico just hours before authorities in Ecuador raided their embassy and took Glas into custody. This event triggered a diplomatic crisis which was condemned by other countries in the Americas.
2024 \| 75px \| Sheikh Hasina \| {{flag\|Bangladesh}} \| {{flag\|India}} \| Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh \| Hasina resigned and fled to India on 5 August 2024 following Bangladesh's July Revolution and was granted political asylum by the Indian government.
2025 \| 75px \| Nadine Heredia \| {{Flag\|Peru}} \| {{Flag\|Brazil}} \| Former First Lady of Peru \| Heredia was granted political asylum by Brazil on April 15, 2025. She was allowed to leave the country, which she did the following day.{{Cite news \|title=Nadine Heredia ingresó esta mañana a la embajada de Brasil para solicitar asilo, informó Cancillería \|last=Acosta \|first=Sebastián \|date=2025-04-15 \|work=RPP Noticias}}{{Cite news \|title=Nadine Heredia llegó Brasil EN VIVO: ex primera dama solicitó asilo y recibió salvoconducto del gobierno de Dina Boluarte \|last=Oré Arroyo \|first=Carlos \|date=2025-04-16 \|url=https://www.infobae.com/peru/2025/04/16/nadine-heredia-abandona-el-peru-rumbo-a-brasil-en-vivo-ex-primera-dama-fue-sentenciada-a-15-anos-de-prision/ \|work=Infobae}}

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style="width:5%;"| Year

! colspan="2" style="width:20%;"| Name

! style="width:15%;"| Citizenship or Persecuting power or Country refusing protection

! style="width:15%;"| Country which granted asylum

! style="width:15%;"| Occupation

! style="width:30%;"| Notes / References

1849

| 75px

| Karl Marx

|{{Flag|Kingdom of Prussia|1803|name=Prussia}}

|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

| German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

| In exile in London from 1849.

1929

|75px

| Leon Trotsky

|{{Flag|Soviet Union|1924}}

|{{Flag|Turkey}}

| Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army

| In exile in Turkey from 1929 to 1933, in France 1933–1935, in Norway 1935–1937, in Mexico 1937–1940.

1954

| Peter Norwood Duberg

|{{Flag|United States|1912}}

|{{Flag|Switzerland}}

| United States citizen, United Nations official, employed in Paris at UNESCO

| For reasons of his early adulthood membership in the Communist Party, Duberg, along with several other U.S. citizens working in international organizations, became the subject of U.S. official investigation in the early 1950s. This led to a loyalty investigation by the U.S. State Department in 1953, also his name being discussed in the U.S. Congress House Committee on un-American Activities.{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/scopeofsovietact3840unit/scopeofsovietact3840unit_djvu.txt |title=Full text of "Scope of Soviet activity in the United States. Hearing before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session–Eighty-fifth Congress, first session .." |publisher=Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. |access-date=17 August 2012}} During 1953, while living in France, and working as an official at UNESCO (the United Nations Education and Scientific Organization) Mr. Duberg refused to answer a series of loyalty-related questionnaires. This resulted in decisions taken which led to termination of his professional employment at the United Nations in 1954. France refused to protect the Duberg family, leading to their need for political asylum. They applied for, and were granted asylum in Switzerland.

1956

| 75px

| József Mindszenty

|{{Flag|Hungary}}

|{{Flag|United States}} (embassy)

| Cardinal of the Catholic Church as the Archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

1959

| 75px

| The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

|{{Flag|Tibet}}

|{{Flag|India}}

| Head monk of the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism (Dalai Lama)

| In exile in India since 1959.{{Cite web |title=Dalai Lama Gets Asylum In India; Harried In Flight |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040459atibet-special.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013024241/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/040459atibet-special.html |archive-date=13 October 2023 |access-date=21 September 2019 |website=archive.nytimes.com}} Currently residing in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala from where he established the Tibetan Government in Exile.

1964-1976

|75px

| João Goulart

|{{Flag|Brazil|1960}}

|{{flag|Uruguay}}

| 24º President of Brazil,{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-presidents-of-Brazil-2061502|title=List of presidents of Brazil |access-date=2020-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505235836/https://www.britannica.com/topic/list-of-presidents-of-Brazil-2061502|archive-date=2020-05-05|url-status=live}} deposed by the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état.{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joao-Goulart|title=João Goulart|access-date=2020-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024110903/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joao-Goulart|archive-date=2020-10-24|url-status=live}}

|He sent a letter requesting the right of asylum on 3 April 1964{{efn|His wife, Maria Thereza Goulart, and his son João Vicente Goulart and his daughter Denize, were sent to Uruguay on 3 April with a letter asking for asylum. With that, the first-lady Maria Thereza Goulart became the first exiled Brazilian during the Military Dictatorship.{{Cite book|title=João Goulart|language=pt-BR|author=Jorge Ferreira|year=2011|publisher=Civilização Brasileira|edition=3|isbn=978-85-200-1056-3|page=538}}}} and went in exile on 4 April 1964.{{Cite book|url=http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3d&tabid=5360 |title= Parlamentares Gaúchos: João Goulart|language=pt-BR|page=127|isbn=978-85-66054-09-5|author1=Kenny Braga|author2=João Borges de Souza|author3=Cleber Dioni|author4=Elmar Bones|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129161321/http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3D&tabid=5360|archive-date=29 November 2020|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2020}} [https://archive.org/details/jango-livro/mode/2up Alt URL] On 21 April he was conceded the asylum and only waived it on 9 November 1976, with the goal of returning to his home country, but died on 6 December.{{Cite web|url=https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/para-tentar-voltar-ao-brasil-jango-renunciou-ao-asilo-politico-no-uruguai-12031037|title=Para tentar voltar ao Brasil, Jango renunciou ao asilo político no Uruguai|trans-title=To try to return to Brazil, Jango renounced political asylum in Uruguay|language=pt-BR|author=Flávio Ilha|date=3 March 2014|access-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803043610/https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/para-tentar-voltar-ao-brasil-jango-renunciou-ao-asilo-politico-no-uruguai-12031037|archive-date=3 August 2014|url-status=live}}

1964-1979

| 75px

| Leonel Brizola

|{{Flag|Brazil|1960}}

|{{flag|Uruguay}}
{{Flag|United States}}

|Federal deputy from Guanabara (1963–1964).{{Cite book|url=http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3d&tabid=5360 |title= Parlamentares Gaúchos: João Goulart|language=pt-BR|page=98|isbn=978-85-66054-09-5|author1=Kenny Braga|author2=João Borges de Souza|author3=Cleber Dioni|author4=Elmar Bones|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129161321/http://www2.al.rs.gov.br/biblioteca/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=2x4gueUrwIw%3D&tabid=5360|archive-date=29 November 2020|url-status=live|access-date=26 November 2020}} [https://archive.org/details/jango-livro/mode/2up Alt URL]

|Part of the opposition against the military dictatorship in Brazil, he had asylum from Uruguay from 3 May 1964{{Cite book|title=João Goulart|language=pt-BR|author=Jorge Ferreira|year=2011|publisher=Civilização Brasileira|edition=3|isbn=978-85-200-1056-3|pages=544–545}} until his expulsion in 1977{{cite journal |last1=Leite |first1=Maria Cláudia Moraes |date=2019 |title=Leonel Brizola e os últimos anos de exílio |language=pt-BR|trans-title=Leonel Brizola and the last years of exile|url=https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180311262019353/9977 |journal=Tempo e Argumento |volume=11 |issue=26 |page=358 |doi=10.5965/2175180311262019353 |access-date=2020-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904175822/https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/tempo/article/view/2175180311262019353/9977|archive-date=2020-09-04|url-status=live|doi-access=free }} and then had US asylum from 1977 to 1979.{{cite news |last=Rocha |first=Glaciliano |date=2010-08-22 |title= Um gaúcho em NY|trans-title= A gaucho in NY|language=pt-BR |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrissima/il2208201003.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102151047/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrissima/il2208201003.htm|archive-date=2020-11-02|url-status=live |work=Folha de São Paulo |place=Brazil |access-date=2020-11-26}}

1967

| 75px

| Svetlana Alliluyeva

|{{Flag|Soviet Union|1936}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Writer and lecturer; daughter of Joseph Stalin

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

1979

| Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

|{{Flag|Pahlavi dynasty|name=Iran|1964}}

|{{Flag|Egypt}}

| Shah of Iran

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

1979–1980

| 75px

| Anastasio Somoza Debayle

|{{Flag|Nicaragua}}

|{{Flag|Paraguay}}

| President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

1984

| 75px

| Assata Shakur

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Cuba}}

| United States citizen, African-American activist, member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA).

| Escaped prison escapee in 1979, two years after being convicted in 1977 of the 1973 first degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.{{cite web |title=Black Liberation Army Member, Assata Shakur, Tried on Murder and Assault Charges | Archives & Special Collections |url=https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/black-liberation-army-member-assata-shakur-tried-murder-and-assault-charges |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309130220/https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/black-liberation-army-member-assata-shakur-tried-murder-and-assault-charges |archive-date=9 March 2024}}

1985

| Walter Polovchak

|{{Flag|Soviet Union}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

|Soviet-born Ukrainian youth who in 1980 then at age 12 was the youngest person to announce that he wanted to leave the Communist world and not return with his parents to what was then Soviet Ukraine. In 1985 after five years of court battles on October 3-his 18th birthday-he was able to stay permanently in the U.S. when he was sworn in as a U.S. citizen.

1986

| 75px

| Choi Eun-hee

|{{Flag|South Korea}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| South Korean actress

|{{cite web|last=Thomson |first=Mike |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2821221.stm |title=Kidnapped by North Korea |publisher=BBC News |date=5 March 2003 |access-date=20 November 2013}}

1986

| Shin Sang-ok

|{{Flag|South Korea}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| South Korean film producer and director

1992

|November 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt participants

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|Peru}}

|Military officers

|After the failure of the November 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état, most of its participants fled to Peru, where they were received by dictator Alberto Fujimori as political asylees. Carlos Andrés Pérez's government had previously severed diplomatic relations with Peru in April after Fujimori carried out a self-coup the same year.{{Cite book |last1=Márquez |first1=Laureano |title=Historieta de Venezuela: De Macuro a Maduro |last2=Eduardo |first2=Sanabria |publisher=Gráficas Pedrazas |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-7328777-1-9 |edition=1st |page=142 |chapter=La democracia pierde energía |author-link=Laureano Márquez}}

1997

| Christoph Meili

|{{Flag|Switzerland}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| National of Switzerland, bank-security guard and whistleblowers at the Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS)

| Mr. Meili was a security guard at UBS, where he witnessed the destruction of documents related to World War II accounts of Jews. He reported the destruction, and was subjected to prosecution, also death threats. The family fled to the United States and were granted political asylum via a private law passed specifically for the Meili family.U.S. Congress: [http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_bills&docid=f:s768enr.txt.pdf Bill S. 768: A bill for the relief of Michel Christopher Meili, Giuseppina Meili, Mirjam Naomi Meili, and Davide Meili], private bill sponsored by New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato (R-NY), signed into Private Law 105-1 by President Bill Clinton on 29 July 1997; accessed 30 October 2006.Swiss parliament, Summer session 1997[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201327/http://www.parlament.ch/poly/Suchen_amtl_Bulletin/cn97/ete/389.HTM Question Schlüer][http://www.parlament.ch/poly/Suchen_amtl_Bulletin/cn97/ete/391.HTM Response] of Federal Councillor Flavio Cotti, who claimed the United States was not granting the Meili family "asylum", but rather a facilitated fast-track immigration. Accessed 30 October 2006. Unhappy in the United States, Mr. Meili later returned to Switzerland safely.

1997/8

| 75px

| Nury Turkel

|{{Flag|China}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Graduate student, later Commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

| {{cite web|url=https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/press-releases-statements/uscirf-welcomes-appointment-speaker-nancy-pelosi-nury-turkel-us|title=USCIRF Welcomes Appointment by Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Nury Turkel to U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom|date=26 May 2020|access-date=22 July 2020|website=United States Commission on International Religious Freedom}}{{cite web|url=https://www.uscirf.gov/nury-turkel-commissioner|title=Nury Turkel, Commissioner|website=United States Commission on International Religious Freedom|date=26 May 2020 |access-date=20 July 2020}}{{cite web |author=Leigh Hartman |date=23 June 2020 |title=Once interned in China, Uyghur American fights for religious freedom |url=https://dk.usembassy.gov/uyghur-american-fights-for-religious-freedom/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002054155/https://dk.usembassy.gov/uyghur-american-fights-for-religious-freedom/ |archive-date=2 October 2023 |access-date=20 July 2020 |website=U.S. Embassy in Denmark}}{{cite web |date=26 May 2020 |title=ICT welcomes Nury Turkel's appointment to US religious freedom commission |url=https://savetibet.org/ict-welcomes-nury-turkels-appointment-to-us-religious-freedom-commission/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108172804/https://savetibet.org/ict-welcomes-nury-turkels-appointment-to-us-religious-freedom-commission/ |archive-date=8 November 2023 |access-date=20 July 2020 |website=International Campaign for Tibet}}

1999–2004, 2007

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| Alex Konanykhin and his wife

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Russian entrepreneur, former banker

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

2001

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| Mohamed El Ghanem

|{{Flag|Egypt}}

|{{Flag|Switzerland}}

| Former officer of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, lawyer, Doctor of Law and Professor.

| Several years after receiving refugee status in Switzerland, Dr. El Ghanem later was arbitrarily detained without charge for refusing to collaborate with Swiss Federal Police in a spying project on local Muslim community. He remained detained without trial for six years. He was released into a hospital in Geneva, under control of the Prosecutor's office: He had brain damage from forced drugging in prison. As of 2023, his whereabouts are unknown.

2001

|Alexander Litvinenko

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

| Former officer who served in the Soviet KGB and its Russian successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB)

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

2002

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| Pedro Carmona

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|Colombia}}

| Venezuelan businessman, declared interim President of Venezuela during the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt

|{{cite web |date=27 May 2002 |title=Venezuelan coup leader given asylum |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2009907.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729203306/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2009907.stm |archive-date=29 July 2023 |access-date=20 November 2013 |publisher=BBC News}}

2003

| Akhmed Zakayev

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

| Former Deputy Prime Minister and the current Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

2003

| Boris Berezovsky

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

| Former Russian government official, businessman and mathematician, member of Russian Academy of Sciences

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

2004

| Ilyas Akhmadov

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Former politician and foreign minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

|{{Cite web |last=Reynolds |first=Maura |date=2004-08-06 |title=U.S. Asylum for Chechen Draws Protest From Russia |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-06-na-russian6-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606064656/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-06-na-russian6-story.html |archive-date=6 June 2023 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

2005

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| Bobby Fischer

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Iceland}}

| Chess Grandmaster and the 11th World Chess Champion, chess author

| {{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |date=19 January 2008 |title=Bobby Fischer, Troubled Genius of Chess, Dies at 64 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326075526/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/19/crosswords/chess/19fischer.html |archive-date=26 March 2024 |work=The New York Times}}{{cite web |date=11 May 2023 |title=Bobby Fischer | Biography & Facts | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bobby-Fischer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119182640/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bobby-Fischer |archive-date=19 January 2024}}

2007

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| John Robles

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Russia}}

| Leak site owner, English teacher, investigative journalist, writer, US foreign policy critic, publisher.

| John Anthony Robles II is a Taino Indian born in Puerto Rico. He was the first and reportedly only ex-US citizen granted full asylum (along with his children) in the Russian Federation. In 2007 after being told to close his site, his US Passport was revoked by then Ambassador William Burns using the false claim that he owed the USA child support for his children in Russia and thus he was left stateless. John worked for the Russian Government and was granted asylum along with his two US born American children. John left the US in 1995 after attempting to expose CPS child trafficking and initiating the formation of a Grand Jury. On the day the Grand Jury was to convene with Robles providing testimony John was detained but not charged and accused of working for the KGB and the Russians. He was forced to leave the US with his children of whom he had full custody and to seek asylum.{{cite news |last=Lally |first=Kathy |date=19 July 2013 |title=Snowden could follow path of U.S. asylum-seekers who led unhappy lives in Russia |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/us-asylum-seekers-unhappy-in-russia/2013/07/18/ced32748-eee8-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html?noredirect=on |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308064403/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/us-asylum-seekers-unhappy-in-russia/2013/07/18/ced32748-eee8-11e2-bed3-b9b6fe264871_story.html |archive-date=8 March 2023 |access-date=26 December 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} Robles was a correspondent, newsreader and political commentator for the Voice of Russia and quoted worldwide {{cite news|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/30/russian-press-rips-romney-and-his-promise-of-republican-hell/|title=Romney and his promise of 'Republican hell'|work=Foreign Policy}} After 17 years he was granted Russian citizenship by President Putin in a decree signed on October 21, 2024.

2007

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| Irakli Okruashvili

|{{Flag|Georgia}}

|{{Flag|France}}

| Georgian politician

| {{citation needed|date=June 2013}}

2008

| Chere Lyn Tomayko

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Costa Rica}}

| United States citizen

| Chere Lyn Tomayko, wanted in the United States for parental kidnapping, was granted asylum in June 2008 by Costa Rica. Tomayko's claims that her actions were justified by domestic violence she suffered were taken into account by the Costa Rican authorities.{{cite news |date=26 July 2008 |title=Wanted US woman freed in Costa Rica |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-07-25-3841863361_x.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205085008/http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2008-07-25-3841863361_x.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 February 2013 |newspaper=USA Today}}

2008

| Nixon Moreno

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|Holy See}}

|{{Cite web |date=17 September 2007 |title=The Vatican grants asylum to Nixon Moreno |url=https://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/17/en_pol_art_the-vatican-grants-a_17A1993925.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141404/http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/09/17/en_pol_art_the-vatican-grants-a_17A1993925 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.eluniversal.com}}

2009

| 75px

| Manuel Rosales

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|Peru}}

| Venezuelan educator and politician

| {{cite news |date=2009-04-28 |title=Venezuela recalls envoy in Peru |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021946.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110125240/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021946.stm |archive-date=10 January 2024 |access-date=2010-02-01 |publisher=BBC News}}

2010

| 75px

| Virginia Vallejo

|{{Flag|Colombia}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Colombian writer, journalist, columnist, media personality, television anchorwoman,{{YouTube|SKbQpDO09q4|Virginia Vallejo, anchorwoman 1994 }}, and socialite

|Biography of the political asylee{{cite web |date=8 February 2018 |title=Biography of the political asylee Virginia Vallejo |url=http://www.virginiavallejo.com/en/biografia-de-virginia-vallejo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216042723/https://virginiavallejo.com/en/biografia-de-virginia-vallejo/ |archive-date=16 December 2023 |access-date=2018-04-30}}

2011

| Savva Terentyev

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|Estonia}}

| Russian blogger and musician

|{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

2011

| Al-Saadi Gaddafi

|{{Flag|Libya}}

|{{Flag|Niger}}

| Third son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; Libyan former association football player

2012

| 75px

| Julian Assange

|{{Flag|Australia}}

|{{Flag|Ecuador}} (embassy)

| Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist

| Assange was granted asylum in 2010 by Ecuador while in the U.K.: He was harbored in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.[http://www.mmrree.gob.ec/2012/com042.asp Declaración del Gobierno de la República del Ecuador sobre la solicitud de asilo de Julian Assange]. {{in lang|es}} ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817230534/http://www.mmrree.gob.ec/2012/com042.asp |date=17 August 2012 }}) Ecuador rescinded Assange's asylum status and citizenship in 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/ecuador-revokes-wikileaks-founder-julian-assanges-citizenship |title=Ecuador revokes WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's citizenship |quote=Assange fled to Ecuador’s embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to the US, but his asylum status was later revoked |website=Al Jazeera |date=28 Jul 2021}} Between April 2019-June 2024 Assange was imprisoned in HMP Belmarsh prison fighting extradition to the United States. In June 2024, Assange agreed to a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defence documents in return for a sentence of time served.{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/assange-justice-department-plea-wikileaks-saipan-australia-00eb380879ff636cc9b916f82f82ed40|title=WikiLeaks' Assange pleads guilty in deal with US that secures his freedom, ends legal fight|first1=Mari|last1=Yamaguchi|first2=Alanna Durkin|last2=Richer|first3=Kimberly|last3=Esmores|first4=Eric|last4=Tucker|publisher=Associated Press|date=25 June 2024|access-date=25 June 2024}}

2012

| Alexander Barankov

|{{Flag|Belarus}}

|{{Flag|Ecuador}}

| Belarusian former policeman or army captain

|{{cite web |title="Платформа" папрасіла Эквадор не выдаваць Баранкова |language=Belarusian |publisher=Belsat TV |date=26 June 2012 |url=http://belsat.eu/be/wiadomosci/a,8916,platforma-paprasila-ekvador-nie-vydavats-barankova.html |access-date=20 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203032730/http://belsat.eu/be/wiadomosci/a,8916,platforma-paprasila-ekvador-nie-vydavats-barankova.html |archive-date=3 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |title=Corte analiza la extradición de bielorruso |date=15 August 2012 |publisher=Expreso (Ecuador) |url=http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=3597389&idcat=19408&tipo=2 |access-date=20 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824151034/http://expreso.ec/expreso/plantillas/nota.aspx?idart=3597389&idcat=19408&tipo=2 |archive-date=24 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|first=Stephan |last=Küffner |author2=Megan Gibson |title=Assange's Special Asylum: Why Ecuador Isn't Nice to Anyone Else |date=16 July 2012 |publisher=Time |url=https://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/ |access-date=20 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821031007/http://world.time.com/2012/08/16/assanges-special-asylum-why-ecuador-isnt-nice-to-anyone-else/ |archive-date=21 August 2012 |url-status=live }}

2012

| Safia Farkash

|{{Flag|Libya}}

|{{Flag|Oman}}

| Widow of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and former First Lady of Libya

2012

| Muhammad Gaddafi

|{{Flag|Libya}}

|{{Flag|Oman}}

| Eldest son of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; chairman of the General Posts and Telecommunications Company

2012

| Ayesha Gaddafi

|{{Flag|Libya}}

|{{Flag|Oman}}

| Fifth child and only daughter of former Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; Libyan mediator and military official, former UN Goodwill Ambassador, and lawyer

2012

| Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi

|{{Flag|Libya}}

|{{Flag|Oman}}

| Fifth son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi; first consultant to the Management Committee of the General National Maritime Transport Company (GNMTC) of Libya

2013

| 75px

| Edward Snowden

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Russia}}

| United States citizen; CIA Officer. Former Booz Allen Hamilton employee worked as a system administrator under an NSA contract.

| Granted temporary asylum in Russia.{{cite web|url=https://wikileaks.org/Statement-on-Snowden-s-Successful.html |title=Statement on Snowden's Successful Russian Asylum Bid |date=1 August 2013 |publisher=WikiLeaks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803060019/http://www.wikileaks.org/Statement-on-Snowden-s-Successful.html |archive-date=3 August 2013 |url-status=live }} Granted Russian citizenship in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/22/europe/edward-snowden-russia-residency-intl/index.html |title=Putin grants Russian citizenship to former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden|last=Macias|first=Amanda|date=22 September 2022|website=CNBC|access-date=13 October 2022}}

2014

| Denise Harvey

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Canada}}

| United States citizen

| Granted asylum in Canada after being sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Florida court for having consensual sex with a 16-year-old teenage boy. The crime she was convicted of is not a crime in Canada (i.e., consensual sex between a 16-year-old and an adult not in a position of authority with respect to the teen) and the Canadian Immigration and Review Board ruled that the 30-year sentence was "cruel and unusual punishment".{{cite web|title=Florida sex offender granted asylum in Canada|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/florida-sex-offender-granted-asylum-in-canada-1.2646061|website=cbc.ca|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=16 May 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Clarke|first1=Katrina|title=Florida sex-offender who had relations with 16-year-old granted refugee status in Canada|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/florida-sex-offender-who-had-relations-with-16-year-old-granted-refugee-status-in-canada|access-date=6 September 2015|work=The National Post|publisher=National Post|date=15 May 2014}}{{cite web|last1=Merti|first1=Steve|title=Was Canada right to grant asylum to a U.S. sex offender?|url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/canada-grant-asylum-u-woman-facing-30-sentence-202822436.html|website=Yahoo! News Canada|date=19 May 2014 |publisher=Yahoo! News|access-date=6 September 2015}}

2014

| Suren Gazaryan

|{{Flag|Russia}}

|{{Flag|Estonia}}

| Russian citizen, Green activist

| Goldman Prize recipient in 2014{{cite web|url=http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/suren-gazaryan|title=Goldman Prize Recipient Suren Gazaryan|date=29 May 2014}}

2014

| Ali Abd Jalil

|{{Flag|Malaysia}}

|{{Flag|Sweden}}

| Malaysian citizen, student activist

| Granted asylum in Sweden after being detained by Royal Malaysia Police and served 22 days in prison for insulting royalty.{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/malaysia-activist-whose-passport-was-revoked-says-he-has-been-issued|title=Malaysia activist whose passport was revoked says he has been issued asylum card by Sweden|newspaper=The Straits Times |date=9 December 2014}}

2014

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|Tamara Sujú

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|Czech Republic}}

|Venezuelan lawyer and human rights activist

|Granted international protection status for a period of ten renewable years.{{cite news|date=25 November 2014|title=Tamara Suju recibe asilo político en la República Checa|language=es-ES|agency=El Universal|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/141125/tamara-suju-recibe-asilo-politico-en-la-republica-checa|access-date=14 April 2017}}

2017

| Amos Yee

|{{Flag|Singapore}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

| Singaporean blogger

| Charged by the State Courts of Singapore after posting videos critical of religious communities in Singapore, and of Lee Kuan Yew. Later granted asylum in the United States.{{Cite web|last=hermes|date=2020-10-18|title=Amos Yee faces deportation if convicted of child porn charges|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/amos-yee-faces-deportation-if-convicted-of-child-porn-charges|access-date=2020-10-18|website=The Straits Times|language=en|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018224845/http://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/amos-yee-faces-deportation-if-convicted-of-child-porn-charges|url-status=live}}

2018

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| Nikola Gruevski

|{{Flag|Macedonia}}

|{{Flag|Hungary}}

| Macedonian citizen, former Prime minister of Macedonia

| {{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-macedonian-leader/2018/11/20/829acc40-ecd1-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120171942/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-hungary-grants-asylum-to-former-macedonian-leader/2018/11/20/829acc40-ecd1-11e8-8b47-bd0975fd6199_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 November 2018|title=Report: Hungary grants asylum to former Macedonian leader|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=20 November 2018}}

2018

|Rosmit Mantilla

|{{Flag|Venezuela}}

|{{Flag|France}}

|National Assembly deputy

|{{Cite web|date=2018-06-05|title=Rosmit Mantilla, asilado en Francia, compartió su historia tras pasar dos años en El Helicoide|url=https://efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/rosmit-mantilla-asilado-en-francia-compartio-su-historia-tras-pasar-dos-anos-en-el-helicoide/|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Efecto Cocuyo|language=es}}

2019

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| Evo Morales

|{{Flag|Bolivia}}

|{{Flag|Mexico}}

| Bolivian citizen, former President of Bolivia

| {{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50383608|title=Report: Bolivia crisis: Evo Morales accepts political asylum in Mexico|work=BBC News |date=12 November 2019}}

2020

|Christopher Mark Doyon aka Commander X

|{{Flag|United States}}

|{{Flag|Mexico}}

|US Citizen, Activist/Author

|First US citizen in history to receive political asylum in Mexico. Granted refugee status for acts associated with Anonymous, and his support of Julian Assange & WikiLeaks.[https://www.dineroenimagen.com/paul-lara/mexico-dara-asilo-al-comandante-x/121538 Article in Dinero En Imagen] Doyen was granted humanitarian protection status, but Mexico did not provide real protection from U.S. removal-requests for Doyen: In 2021, a multi-agency team of American, Mexican and intergovernmental authorities (including the Mexican National Police, the U.S. FBI, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the US State Department and Interpol){{cite press release |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-mountain-view-resident-christopher-doyon-apprehended-mexico-and-returned-united |title=Former Mountain View Resident Christopher Doyon Apprehended In Mexico And Returned To The United States |date=June 15, 2021 |publisher=U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California}} stormed the compound in which he resided in Mexico city and deported him without a hearing. He was presented to U.S. authorities in Northern California, where he pled guilty (via plea-deal) to hacking the city of Santa Cruz, was imprisoned for about a year; he was released, in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ddos-fugitive-commander-x-arrested-in-mexico-extradited-to-us/ |title=Ten-year hacktivist fugitive Commander X arrested in Mexico |author=Nate Anderson |date=2021-06-16 |website=Ars Technica}}

2021

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|Nathan Law

|{{Flag|China}} ({{Flag|Hong Kong}} resident)

|{{Flag|United Kingdom}}

|Hong Kong resident, politician and activist

|Self Exiled in United Kingdom after China's increasing control over Hong Kong.{{cite news |last=Davidson |first=Helen |date=9 April 2021 |title=China blasts UK for granting asylum to Hong Kong activist Nathan Law |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409055209/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/09/china-blasts-uk-asylum-hong-kong-nathan-law |archive-date=9 April 2021 |access-date=20 October 2021 |newspaper=The Guardian}}

2021

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|Tuhin Das

|{{Flag|Bangladesh}}

|{{Flag|United States}}

|Bengali Writer, Activist

|Exiled in 2016 for speaking out against Islamic fundamentalism. Granted Asylum in the United States.{{cite web |url=https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/people-in-america-tuhin-das/3724696.html|title=Tuhin Das: Poet, Activist and Writer in Exile|date=15 February 2017|website=Voice of America|access-date=13 October 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2022-06-21/dissident-bangladeshi-writer-pittsburgh-city-asylum-new-poetry-collection |title=Dissident Bangladeshi writer explores homesickness, and Pittsburgh, in new poetry collection|last=O'Driscoll|first=Bill |date=21 June 2022|website=WESA (FM)|access-date=14 October 2022|quote=}}

2022

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|Rafael Correa

|{{Flag|Ecuador}}

|{{Flag|Belgium}}

|Former President of Ecuador

|In 2022, Ecuador's Court President began extradition request seeking the return of former President Rafael Correa, who lives in Belgium and in 2020 was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison on bribery allegations.. extradition was refused and he was granted asylum in Belgium.{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/22/ecuador-begins-effort-to-extradite-rafael-correa-from-belgium|title=Ecuador begins effort to extradite Rafael Correa from Belgium|date=22 April 2022|website=Al Jazeera|access-date=5 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/ecuador-ex-president-correa-says-belgian-asylum-attests-to-innocence |title=Ecuador ex-president Correa says Belgian asylum attests to innocence|agency=Associated France Press (AFP)|date=28 April 2022|website=RFI |access-date=5 February 2024}}

2024

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| Jorge Glas

| {{Flag|Ecuador}}

| {{Flag|Mexico}}

| Former Vice President of Ecuador

| Jorge Glas was granted political asylum by Mexico just hours before authorities in Ecuador raided their embassy and took Glas into custody. This event triggered a diplomatic crisis which was condemned by other countries in the Americas.

2024

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| Sheikh Hasina

| {{flag|Bangladesh}}

| {{flag|India}}

| Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh

| Hasina resigned and fled to India on 5 August 2024 following Bangladesh's July Revolution and was granted political asylum by the Indian government.

2025

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| Nadine Heredia

| {{Flag|Peru}}

| {{Flag|Brazil}}

| Former First Lady of Peru

| Heredia was granted political asylum by Brazil on April 15, 2025. She was allowed to leave the country, which she did the following day.{{Cite news |title=Nadine Heredia ingresó esta mañana a la embajada de Brasil para solicitar asilo, informó Cancillería |last=Acosta |first=Sebastián |date=2025-04-15 |work=RPP Noticias}}{{Cite news |title=Nadine Heredia llegó Brasil EN VIVO: ex primera dama solicitó asilo y recibió salvoconducto del gobierno de Dina Boluarte |last=Oré Arroyo |first=Carlos |date=2025-04-16 |url=https://www.infobae.com/peru/2025/04/16/nadine-heredia-abandona-el-peru-rumbo-a-brasil-en-vivo-ex-primera-dama-fue-sentenciada-a-15-anos-de-prision/ |work=Infobae}}

References

Notes

Category:Right of asylum

Asylum

List of people granted asylum

People granted asylum

See also

References

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