United States First Circuit
Precetaj v. Holder, 10-1109
In a petition for review of an order of the BIA affirming an administrative denial of the applications for asylum by petitioners, an Albanian couple, judgment of the BIA is reversed where changed country conditions do not automatically trump an applicant's specific evidence of past persecution, and where the retention of local power by former persecutors could favor an asylum seeker's claim and make a simple change in central government insufficient to rebut the presumption of future persecution.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/11/2011
- Published 08/11/2011
Judges
- BOUDIN
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Jeffrey B. Rubin, Andrea N. Gevas