Afriyie v. Holder

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the police’s demand for bribes supported the conclusion that the police were “unable and unwilling” to protect the petitioner
• holding that even if evidence “suggests that the police were willing to protect [petitioner], that says little if anything about whether they were able to do so”
• holding that evidence of corruption in the alien’s country of origin is only one factor to consider under the “unable or unwilling” prong of the persecution analysis
• noting that the government bears the burden of establishing that relocation is both safe and reasonable once an applicant has demonstrated past persecution
• explaining that “without demonstrating past persecution,” the petitioner has “the burden of showing that relocation would not be safe or reasonable”
• explaining that the authorities’ response, or lack thereof, to reports of persecution “may provide powerful evidence with respect to the government’s willingness or ability to protect the requestor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).