{"id":27810,"date":"2020-07-24T16:56:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=27810"},"modified":"2020-07-26T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T16:58:47","slug":"rwanda-grants-asylum-to-stateless-man-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/rwanda-grants-asylum-to-stateless-man-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda grants asylum to stateless man from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lavie Mutanganshuro<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Rwanda on Friday, July 24, received, on humanitarian grounds, a stateless person named Amin Hassoun who was relocated from the United States after completing a prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>By definition, according to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, a stateless person is someone who is not considered as a national by any state.<\/p>\n<p>According to a government statement issued on Friday, Hassoun willingly accepted being relocated and settled in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Hassoun, a Palestinian born in Lebanon settled in the United States in the 1980s and worked as a computer programmer.<\/p>\n<p>After 9\/11 he was convicted under the Patriot Act with making contributions to an Islamic charity that supported groups involved in terrorism in Chechnya and Bosnia.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/rwanda-grants-asylum-stateless-man-us#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/rwanda-grants-asylum-stateless-man-us#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Lavie Mutanganshuro The Government of Rwanda on Friday, July 24, received, on humanitarian grounds, a stateless person named Amin Hassoun who was relocated from the United States after completing a prison sentence. By definition, according to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons, a stateless person is someone who is not considered [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-rwanda","type-news-articles","item-year-668","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}