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Political Asylum

Reversing, the Second Circuit found the Board of Immigration Appeals improperly denied a political asylum application from a Chinese woman who, among other things, had to undergo a forced abortion for being “pregnant without prior authorization.”

MANHATTAN — Reversing, the Second Circuit found the Board of Immigration Appeals improperly denied a political asylum application from a Chinese woman who, among other things, had to undergo a forced abortion for being “pregnant without prior authorization.”

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Government

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