United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of an order of the BIA denying petitioner's applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and relief under the CAT, petition is granted with case remanded for further proceedings where petitioner, a native and citizen of China, who was arrested after his organization of a worker's protest, may have established that his arrest and subsequent harassment by state officials was on account of a protected ground.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/14/2011
• Published 07/14/2011

Judges

• PREGERSON

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Afrasiabi, David H. Wetmore