He has been granted asylum by the Nicaraguan government, after seeking refuge in their embassy in Lima.
Which makes all the more problematic the plight of Middle Eastern Christians seeking refuge from their oppressors.
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The US says they target militants seeking refuge in the tribal areas.
"Mr. Moussavi may face no choice other than seeking refuge, " Alfoneh said.
The first was Edgar Allan Poe's 'King Pest', an adaptation of this short story about two sailors seeking refuge in a plague town.
Kawashima, seeking refuge from the repeated Godzilla attacks that plague their homeland, fled Japan and became legal permanent residents of the U.S. in 1984.
The progress of the Northern League, a natural recipient of protest votes, suggests that large numbers of voters were seeking refuge from the terrors of globalisation.
Some investors are trying to reduce their portfolio's volatility by seeking refuge in a little-known corner of the investing world: mutual funds designed to perform like hedge funds.
Hollande said he had spoken to the leaders of Mauritania and Algeria, both of which have agreed to close their borders with Mali to prevent fleeing militants from seeking refuge.
He also highlighted his background as the son of immigrants and the story of his parents seeking refuge in the United States to escape a repressive dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
It also called for neighbouring Iran to open its borders and allow Afghan refugees fleeing the fighting to cross into its territory -- adding to the 2.3 million already seeking refuge.
"For the moment, investors are seeking refuge in U.S. government bonds, and other paper currencies, but they will inevitably crumble also, and only gold will stand erect, the cynosure of shipwrecked investors, " writes Dines like an archetypal gold bug.
But things aren't looking good as Lehman Brothers Holdings and American Internationanl Group were left to their own fates, Lehman seeking refuge in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and AIG apparently rebuffed in its effort to get a Federal Reserve loan.
The prime minister and other top officials have stressed that if the swell of Syrians seeking refuge in Turkey continues to rise, Ankara could be forced to take harsher steps, including opening a buffer zone on Syrian territory, to protect civilians and ensure national security.
As artists and students have been gradually priced out of traditional inner-city areas such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, this southwesterly district has become a haven for the annual hordes of newcomers seeking refuge in its relatively cheap rents, transformed ateliers and bars and burgeoning creative community.
In a twist, Hurricane (or super storm) Sandy actually helped drive up Hollywood box office numbers this weekend in the Northeast, where kids were off school on Friday and people over the weekend were seeking entertainment refuge from a very bad week of flooding, power loss and devastation.
They have come here seeking shelter and refuge, but all they get are torrential rains and the threat of disease.
The categories may sometimes overlap, yet there is a real difference between an economic migrant seeking a better life and a political migrant hoping for refuge from war or persecution.
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