TOKYO (Sputnik) – Three Japanese citizens tried to enter the territory of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo asking for "political asylum," an embassy spokesperson told RIA Novosti on Friday.
6 April 2016, 09:34 GMT
According to the spokesperson, a father and his two daughters "expressed the intention to contact the embassy to ask for political asylum," referring to being persecuted in Japan "because of their anti-American beliefs."
The three were not allowed past the embassy gates and the Russian side contacted Japanese law enforcement as well as the Japanese Foreign Ministry to resolve the issue.
The father and his daughters passed documents relevant to their political asylum request to embassy staff present at the scene. The Russian embassy said it would review the request.
