United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of an application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention against Torture is granted where substantial evidence did not support the IJ's findings that petitioner's persecution was not on account of his political opinion and that state actors were not responsible for the harm he alleged.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2008
• Published 03/19/2008

Judges

• FLAUM, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, MANION, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin Shepherd, Detroit, MI, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul F. Stone, Hillel R. Smith, Ari Nazarov, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.