United States Seventh Circuit

A Chinese citizen's petition for review of BIA's denial of her application for asylum is granted and remanded as the Board has never addressed the question of whether it is appropriate to treat suing a unit of government as a legitimate means of expressing one's political opinion. Furthermore, the Board needs to consider the possibility that, if China has classified petitioner as a public protester, then perhaps an imputed political opinion is "at least one central reason" for the attempted arrest for filing suit against the local government for confiscating her father's land without just compensation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2010
• Published 06/10/2010

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and COFFEY and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Xiu Qin Chen, New York, NY, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jessica E. Sherman, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.