Hearing Rescheduled for Armenian Woman
A political asylum hearing has been continued until November for an Armenian woman who said she was the victim of religious persecution in her hometown.
Armine, a 34-year-old refugee who asked that her last name not be used, broke down in tears when she testified before an Immigration and Naturalization Services judge Thursday, said Pasadena attorney Louis Gordon.
The woman said she fled her country after she was raped and a vigilante group terrorized her and her sister for their involvement in transcendental meditation, an Indian meditation practice opposed by some members of Armenia’s main religious group, the Christian Apostolic Church.
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