· 10/14/2004
Taty Lieana Tearsa Sael, Orville Wright Manariangkuba v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Citations
- 386 F.3d 922
- 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 21340
- 2004 WL 2303444
How courts have described this case
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- weighing whether “the Indonesian government[’s]” official policy of “ethnic tolerance” outweighs evidence of “[o]fficial discrimination” by the government
- weighing whether “the Indonesian government[’s]” official policy of “ethnic tolerance” outweighs evidence of “[o]fficial discrimination” by the government
- requiring a “comparatively low” level of individualized risk in order to prove a well-founded fear of future persecution
- finding applicant eligible for asylum, and describing the plight of ethnie-Chinese Christians in Indonesia
- finding sufficient individualized risk of future persecution where native Indonesians threatened applicant directly, vandalized her ear often with sexist and racist remarks, and stoned her boarding house whhe shouting her name and racist threats
- “An asylum applicant’s well-founded fear of persecution must be both subjectively genuine and objectively reasonable.”
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Judges: Fletcher, Trott, Fisher
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