The army and death squads forced many of them to flee to the United States but most were denied asylum.

"If this were the United States, he would be denied asylum," he added.

I asked her what she would do if in the end she was denied asylum.

He is a refugee from Ukraine, who was denied political asylum two days before the deadline.

According to reports, Wang sought and was denied asylum in the United States.

Also last week, a Romanian man who was denied asylum after an investigation, punched police officers as they tried to put him on an airliner.

He was denied asylum last year and has since been in Federal custody pending possible deportation.

About half of the former Soviet citizens whose cases were decided last year were denied asylum.

She had been denied asylum and ordered to leave the United States in 2004.

But it found that judges often wrongly used airport statements to deny asylum later.