Volodymir Fedunyak v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an alien’s refusal to comply with extortion demands by officials and his reporting the corruption to higher officials was political and was whistleblowing activity
• noting that when the alien reported extortion by low-level officials to the mayor and Supreme Soviet Deputy, these higher authorities threatened the alien rather than investigating the corruption
• stating that the “death threats and beating that Fedunyak received as a result of his complaints [against extortion] establish the requisite nexus between his political opposition to government corruption and the retaliatory persecution that he suffered”
• finding political opinion where Ukrainian business owner filed complaints opposing government extortion scheme
• finding persecution on account of a political opinion where persecutors had mixed motives for them actions
• finding, where the petitioner was persecuted by police for reporting extortion by a public official, that petitioner’s conduct was political activity opposing institutional corruption

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).