Afroza Hasan Khandker Nazmul Hasan v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that whistle-blowing was political where alien published article criticizing not just politician’s corruption but also the indifference exhibited by local law enforcement
• holding that a journalist exposed systemic government corruption by writing an article about a corrupt government official who acted like a “godfather” with the implicit permission of law enforcement and other government officials
• holding that whistleblowing was political where alien published article criticizing not just politician’s corruption but also the indifference exhibited by local law enforcement
• holding that a journalist exposed systemic gov- ernment corruption by writing an article about a corrupt gov- ernment official who acted like a “godfather” with the implicit permission of law enforcement and other government officials
• finding that when persecutors have mixed motives, “personal retaliation against a vocal opponent does not render the opposition any less political, or the opponent any less deserving of asylum.”
• describing that “the legal standard for considering the possibility of relocation is different in the context of a CAT claim than in an asylum claim” and that, in the former, “the burden is on the applicant”

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