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Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: Geneva Convention

Alexandre Konanykhine Dept: Alexandre Konanykhine, according to CBC. Nixon Moreno Based on long-standing legal and religious traditions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says everyone "has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution" a principle backed up by other modern and international agreements including the Geneva Convention. Notable cases of political include: Bankster or refugee? According to officials in Moscow this jet-setting financial whiz kid and associate of then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin embezzled some $8 million from his own bank. Konanykhine, then 30, and his wife were arrested in Washington D.C., in 1996. But by 1999, following testimony from experts that included a former KGB agent, the pair had convinced an immigration judge they were the victims of political persecution. The court changed its mind in 2004 and was set to send them back to Moscow, though that ruling was later reversed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.