United States Seventh Circuit

Asylum and withholding of deportation were properly denied where evidence did not compel a finding of persecution due to 1) Armenian ethnicity, or 2) affiliation with Christian women who oppose the Islamic female dress code.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/03/2002
• Decided 07/22/2002
• Published 07/22/2002

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula N. Harris (argued), Burbank, CA, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Blair T. O'Connor (argued), Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for respondent.