2 Brits who sought free speech asylum to be deported after months in US custody

October 2nd, 2009 Pa. college reverses policy after free-speech flapPITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh-area community college caught up in a free-speech dispute says it will no longer require students to get approval to pass out leaflets. The Community College of Allegheny County had argued that 24-year-old Christine Brashier (BRAH'-sheer) didn't follow the rules when she passed out leaflets in May while trying to form a group advocating the right to carry concealed firearms on campus.

September 21st, 2009 GENEVA - Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at former US president George W Bush, said he wants political asylum in Switzerland, a Swiss channel reported Monday. In parts of an interview posted on the website of TSR, a French-language channel, al-Zaidi said he preferred Switzerland as it was a neutral country that "does not support the occupation of Iraq." The journalist said he wanted to gather together Iraqis to launch a class action lawsuit against Bush and other political leaders who backed the invasion of Iraq in 2003, for "war crimes." Al-Zaidi repeated accusations that he was abused and tortured while imprisoned for launching the shoes at Bush during his final months in office.

September 17th, 2009 Venezuela opposition activist seeks asylum in PeruLIMA, Peru — A Venezuelan opposition figure sought political asylum in Peru on Thursday to evade charges that he incited violence in an August protest against a controversial education law, his lawyer said. A Venezuelan court ordered the arrest of Oscar Perez last month on charges of conspiring to commit and instigate crimes during an Aug.

August 22nd, 2009 Ex-Chavez ally seeks asylum in Peru to evade trialLIMA, Peru — A former ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in Peru seeking political asylum to avoid corruption charges at home that he contends are politically motivated, his lawyer said Friday. Didalco Bolivar is a former governor who split with Chavez in 2007 when he refused to join the president's newly formed ruling party.

July 16th, 2009 Feds: Domestic violence victims may get asylumSAN FRANCISCO — The Department of Homeland Security has opened the door to the possibility that immigrants who have been victims of domestic violence could qualify for asylum. The move, a change from the Bush administration, came to light when the government asked that the case of a Mexican woman who claims she was severely beaten by her common-law husband be sent back to an immigration court for further review.

July 9th, 2009 Terror suspect to serve about 1 year, be deportedMINNEAPOLIS — A terror suspect who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide support to al-Qaida will serve about a year in prison and then be deported to Canada. U.S. District John R.

June 19th, 2009 Correction: Peru-BoliviaLIMA, Peru — In stories May 11 and May 12 about Peru granting asylum to two Bolivian officials, The Associated Press erroneously reported that genocide charges were not filed against former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and members of his cabinet until after Evo Morales became president in 2006. Bolivia's congress ratified charges against Sanchez de Lozada and the cabinet members in 2004, and prosecutors added five former senior military officials as defendants after Morales' inauguration.

June 10th, 2009 Wash. judge: Blaring car horn is not free speechEVERETT, Wash. — Being honked off doesn't give you a right to honk on, a judge told a woman who vented at a neighbor by leaning on her car horn at 6 a.m.

June 9th, 2009 Judge: Blaring your car horn is not free speechEVERETT, Wash. — Being honked off doesn't give you a right to honk on, a judge told a woman who vented at a neighbor by leaning on her car horn at 6 a.m.

June 6th, 2009 20K people outside US got Obama speech textsWASHINGTON — More than 20,000 people outside the U.S. received free text messages about President Barack Obama's speech to Muslims in Cairo, Egypt.

May 13th, 2009 Peru gives refuge to 2 officials sought by BoliviaLIMA, Peru — Peru gave refuge to two more former Bolivian government ministers who fled genocide charges for the 2003 army killings of dozens of protesters, Peru's foreign minister said Tuesday. Bolivia had been demanding that Peru hand over the two ex-officials as well as a third granted political asylum in April, in a case that has further strained relations between the two South American neighbors.

May 12th, 2009 Asylum fight heating up Bolivia-Peru tensionsLA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia demanded Monday that Peru hand over three former government ministers charged with genocide in the 2003 killing of dozens of protesters, and President Evo Morales called asylum an "open provocation of the Bolivian people." Peruvian President Alan Garcia granted asylum to one of the former officials — Jorge Torres — in April and is reviewing requests from the other two. The fight is worsening already poor relations between the neighboring South American nations, which have been at odds since Garcia, an economic liberal, and Morales, a leftist, took office in 2006.

May 5th, 2009 UN refugee body: Security improved in Iraq's southGENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says it has changed its guidelines on how countries should treat asylum seekers from southern Iraq because of the improved security situation.

April 27th, 2009 Court to consider case of immigrant who oversleptWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether an Albanian immigrant who overslept and missed his asylum hearing can be deported. The court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal by Agron Kucana, who came to the United States in 1995 as a nonimmigrant visitor.

April 2nd, 2009 BOSTON - A US immigration judge has given President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt ten more months to prepare an argument against her deportation. The decision came six years after Aunt Zeituni Onyango was first ordered to leave the United States.