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Get out of the country ASAP. Come to San Francisco. You won't go to jail here for posting pictures. Apply for asylum or whatever later, but get your butt on a p
by geuis 13y ago
Get out of the country ASAP. Come to San Francisco. You won't go to jail here for posting pictures. Apply for asylum or whatever later, but get your butt on a plane ASAP.
- 3a0e8ff4e557 13y agoMy passport was impounded, unfortunately.
- ballard 13y agoSneak the f out on back country roads or by boat. Prison may very well kill you.
- DanBC 13y agoYou don't need a passport to leave a country. You need a passport to get into a country. People who enter a country illegally and then claim asylum status are unlikely to be in any position to keep their business running.
- csomar 13y agoHow hard is it to get a fake-passport and sneak through the airport?
- bwb 13y agoVery hard. You could go to the USA, Canada, or EU country embassy and see if they can help you with asylum etc. I would recommend Canada.
- drakeandrews 13y agoAssuming you have the original, non-biometric passport, access to materials and suitable printers, plotters etc and a handful of other passports of the appropriate nationality people don't mind being "recycled", quite a while.
- stevenbedrick 13y agoVery. And the consequences from getting caught are bad.
- outworlder 13y agoIrrelevant. Even if it were easy as a pie, OP is worried about being convicted of a 'crime' which is not considered a crime in most of the developed world. So, he has a chance of being granted asylum. Faking a passport, however, IS a very serious crime and it would be something ridiculously stupid to do.
- esolyt 13y agoHe is probably not allowed to leave the country while his trial is going on.
- jawerty 13y agoThat's not the issue; of course he's not allowed. The problem is whether the US would give him asylum.
- estebank 13y agoAnd you think the US will grant him a visa to work being a fugitive of a muslim country?
- mahmud 13y agoHah! Never. The U.S. is the last place you want to seek refugee from an unjust government.
- bennyg 13y agoDon't be naive.
- rdouble 13y agoCan't tell if srs. My grandpa got about 5K refugees into the country over his lifetime. Minnesotans are into that sort of thing. Try contacting http://www.iimn.org http://www.iimn.org if you're really into this idea. They could at least say if asylum/refugee status is likely. The downside is asylum/refugee can be somewhat political. Not sure what the USA's relationship is with Malaysia, and it may offend Singapore. It's better to be from a country nobody ever thinks about, or assumes is horrible like Somalia or Eritrea.
- Shish2k 13y agoTo butcher Churchill - The US does have the most evil and corrupt government; apart from all the others
- yummyfajitas 13y agoHis crime is "posting a religiously-insensitive photograph". Sounds like a poster boy for the refugee visa.
- easytiger 13y agoisn't it called asylum.
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- JPKab 13y agoAttention Captain Obvious: If he could leave the country, he probably would.
- milesokeefe 13y ago>You won't go to jail here for posting pictures. Sorry to be pedantic but there are a lot of pictures you can post in the US that will get you sent to jail.
- hackerboos 13y agoCartoons I think we are referring to.
- cromulent 13y ago"Religiously-insensitive photographs" the OP said. If The Onion didn't get in trouble for this one, then the US is safe. Cartoon, not safe for work. http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-...
- 300bps 13y ago^ NSFW ^ (sorry, used to seeing NSFW, not "not safe for work" so clicked on it before I realized)
- darklajid 13y agoI'm mildly amused that a comic depicting various religious figures in a (however weird) sexual act could be considered not safe for work - which seems just a different way to say "Comics like these might offend your coworkers / employer", which .. feels like the reduced, small-scale version of the "crime" the OP is prosecuted for. It's a harmless picture, a comic, from a satirical magazine. It shouldn't be considered unsafe for work.
- cromulent 13y agoAgree wholeheartedly, and obviously so does The Onion. However, given that cultures vary, etc, I thought it best to warn.
- francesca 13y ago
- ryan-allen 13y agoWhy not Texas? Or Iowa? They're all part of the US that is bound by the immigration laws of your country right? What the hell does SF have to do with it? If only all of the world's persecuted people could move to SF!
- geuis 13y agoEat your sarcasm. Because he's posting on HN for advice. Because SF and the Bay Area has a higher proportion of immigrants and human rights organizations than many other areas of the country. Because it's more likely easier to get here if he's in a country like Indonesia. Because I live in SF AND I HAVE A FUCKING COUCH HE CAN SLEEP ON if necessary. You insensitive pricks make me sick.
- ryanisinallofus 13y agoJust as likely to end up in gizmo.