· 7/12/2007
Heng v. Gonzales
Citations
- 493 F.3d 46
- 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 16646
- 2007 WL 2004522
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that petitioner first crediting political members and then human rights workers for her release was not necessarily inconsistent
- noting that errors in translation “cannot be avoided, but immigration judges must be sensitive to the complexities of receiving testimony through a translator and take into account these difficulties when assessing credibility”
- “Asylum applicants are not required to list every incident of persecution.”
- noting essence of claim was arrest and detention without water
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Judges: Howard, Selya, Shadur
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