11.   After a year in detention a dedicated lawyer took her case to the Board of Immigration Appeals, which granted her asylum.

12.   After escaping Cincinnati and signing with Tennessee, Pickens feels like a political prisoner who has been granted asylum.

13.   After all, this is the country that granted asylum to some Black Panthers.

14.   Britain, however, has granted asylum to Czech Gypsies in only a handful of cases.

15.   But a lawyer took the case to the Board of Immigration Appeals, and she was granted asylum.

16.   Canada, like most Western countries, grants asylum only to refugee claimants who can prove they are victims of systemic political or racial persecution in their homelands.

17.   Despite two rulings by the immigration agency to deny her application, immigration officials granted Abankwah asylum after she took her case to a federal appeals court.

18.   Each year, a few thousand Iraqis are granted asylum elsewhere by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.

19.   Few children who enter this country alone are granted asylum, and few are adopted, they say.

20.   Four hours later, the Interior Ministry announced that asylum would be granted, for reasons that were unclear.