U.S. trying to deport Russian political dissident back to Moscow

Jul 10, 2022 08:00 pm Cyber Security 166

By Micaela BurrowDaily Caller News Foundation

Grigorii Duralev applied for asylum in the U.S. after becoming the target of political repression, he told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

U.S. immigration officials are allegedly trying to deport him, complying with an Interpol Red Notice request Russia issued for Duralev.

Duralev is running out of options in U.S. courts, but he is still fighting; “I prefer to do than not to do,” he said.

The U.S. has allegedly complied with a Russian request to aid in the arrest of a political dissident, engaging in a lengthy court battle that could ultimately see him sent back to Russia, according to the victim.

Grigorii Duralev applied for asylum in the U.S. in January 2016 after he learned that Russia had charged him with large-scale fraud, Duralev told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. When he responded to his initial interview summons with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him in the USCIS office and put him in the deportation process unfairly, he told the DCNF.

“When government makes a mistake in their procedures, they don’t have any dignity, even in the United States, to admit those mistakes,” said Duralev.

Facing Deportation

ICE charged Duralev with overstaying his tourist visa, according to court documents shared with the DCNF.

Duralev argued that the official confirmation of a pending asylum application should have protected his stay in the U.S. until the USCIS officer’s decision according to Part 2, Section 3 of the application trying deport russian political dissident moscow