Espectacion Bolanos-Hernandez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a specific, serious threat may establish a well-founded fear of persecution
• recognizing that persecutors are not likely to provide their victims with evidence of their motives
• holding that a spe- cific, serious threat may establish a well-founded fear of per- secution
• holding that petitioner’s claim was credible because petitioner testified of specific instances and provided documentary evidence in which others were persecuted for similar situations as his
• stating that to require an applicant to present corroborating evidence would make it close to impossible for an applicant to make out a case
• noting that it is unlikely that persecutors will provide victims with affidavits of their acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).