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List of people granted asylum

List of people granted asylum

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This is a list of people granted political asylum for individual and publicly known reasons. They were persecuted because of their actions as individuals, not because they were members of a persecuted group. Individual reasons for persecution can be found in the notes column of the table.

This article is about a subgroup of refugees who were persecuted as individuals. For bigger group of refugees that include group based and non-political persecution, see List of refugees.

People granted asylum

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Notes

  1. His wife, Maria Thereza Goulart, and his son João Vicente Goulart and his daughter Denize, were sent to Uruguay on 3 April with a letter asking for asylum. With that, the first-lady Maria Thereza Goulart became the first exiled Brazilian during the Military Dictatorship.[5]
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