{"id":2416,"date":"2026-04-16T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/?page_id=2416"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:24","slug":"what-is-asylum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/asylum-in-algeria\/what-is-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"What is asylum?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asylum means protection in another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can apply for asylum in Algeria if you cannot safely return to your country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may be because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You are afraid of being harmed because of:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>your race<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your religion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your nationality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your political opinion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your social group (for example, your family or community)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or because of:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>war or violence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>torture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>inhuman or degrading treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If this applies to you, you can ask for asylum in Algeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asylum means protection in another country. You can apply for asylum in Algeria if you cannot safely return to your country. This may be because: If this applies to you, you can ask for asylum in Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"parent":2412,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/algeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}