United States Ninth Circuit

The denial of Petitioner's asylum petition is reversed, where the BIA should have considered Petitioner's country-conditions evidence regarding the widespread mistreatment of Chinese and Christians in Indonesia when assessing the likelihood that he would face future persecution.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/15/2008
• Decided 03/10/2009
• Published 03/10/2009

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RICHARD A. PAEZ and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges, and HAROLD BAER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert G. Ryan, Law Offices of Eugene C. Wong, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ashley B. Han, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, and Linda S. Wendtland, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.