Asylum and Its Discontents in the United States
About a year ago, I wrote about Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Los Angeles, who applied for asylum based on his sexual orientation. Now, the Jerusalem Post reports that his claim for asylum has been denied (the article also demonstrates the Post’s shoddy journalism, but more on that … Read more
Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has applied for political asylum in the United States, claiming that Saudi officials have terminated his job after discovering that he was gay and was close friends with an Israeli Jewish woman. MSNBC reports that on a Saudi website, Mr. Asseri recently criticized … Read more