Political Asylum

The Third Circuit found that a Nepalese man who was severely beaten and threatened with death, moved across the country twice, but whom Maoists threatened with death at each place, and whose wife was raped, may qualify for political asylum after all.

PHILADELPHIA — Reversing an immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Third Circuit found that a Nepalese man who was severely beaten and threatened with death, moved across the country twice, but whom Maoists threatened with death at each place, and whose wife was raped, may qualify for political asylum after all.

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