Under international law, a refugee is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution at home.
Both the asylum officer and the judge found that she had no credible fear of persecution.
"Now they can happen with little fear of persecution."
In particular, fear of further persecution for seeking the truth inhibited them from bringing the case to attention.
Refugee: A person who has a well-founded fear of persecution if he/she should return to his/her home country.
"And the Government has made it harder for them to assert a credible fear of persecution."
Others came in the 1940s in fear of communist persecution.
But does he still have a well-founded fear of persecution?
But let us never forget that the fundamental right is to live in peace without fear of persecution.
The necessary criterion is an individual's well-founded, specific fear of political persecution.