Obama's cousin seeks asylum in the United States for fear of torture
Editor Ammar Kazim - Wednesday, 10 December 2014 14:17
Alsumaria News / Baghdad appealed cousin of US President Barack Obama Board of Directors of the resumption of US immigration not to remove him from the United States after spending nine months in the regional facility Nampfnuk in Stanford , Virginia, US , said the newspaper "Daily Collier America" site, that George Obama, who is 36-year-old had arrived in the United States since 1997, coming from Kenya and was unable to get asylum.
He added that he hopes to stay in the United States because if he returns it will be a valuable target for group Shabaab al-Qaeda activist in Kenya, which also was assassinated leader Ahmed Abdi Godane strike a US drone in the first of September.He was a cousin of Obama, George has failed to apply for asylum after a year of arriving in the United States and the presence of negative indicators in the record regarding the immigration court in Arlington rejected the asylum application made by. For his part, lawyer George Obama said he would appeal the appeal court's decision and that George Obama should be granted relief is optional under the Convention United Nations anti-torture for those who fear persecution or subjected to torture upon their return to a particular country.