United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff is entitled to withholding of removal where his treatment by the Senegalese armed forces constitutes persecution on account of an imputed political opinion and entitles him to a presumption of a well-founded fear of persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/16/2004
• Decided 09/10/2004
• Published 09/10/2004

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  T.G. NELSON, W. FLETCHER, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rochelle A. Fortier Nwadibia, Privitera & Nwadibia, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Emily Anne Radford and Keith I. Bernstein, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.