United States Eighth Circuit

Petition to review decision denying asylum, withholding of removal, and relief against Convention Against Torture (CAT) is denied where: 1) petitioner was not harmed during or after the incidents in 1988 and 1991; 2) petitioner's immediate family has remained in Guatemala unharmed; 3) petitioner failed to rebut the substantial evidence that political and human rights conditions dramatically improved after he left the country; and 4) petitioner failed to show "a particularized risk of persecution on account of a protected ground" that would establish either a well-founded fear of persecution making him eligible for asylum or the withholding of removal, or a likelihood of torture warranting relief under the CAT.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/28/2008
• Published 08/28/2008

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• United States Eighth Circuit

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