Yvette Akosung v. William Barr

How courts have described this case

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• stating that asylum and withholding of removal are unavailable if a petitioner could avoid persecution by relocating internally
• explaining that asylum and withholding of removal are unavailable if the applicant could avoid persecution by relocating within the country and it would be reasonable to expect the applicant to do so
• explaining that the consideration of relocation in the CAT context differs from relocation in the asylum and withholding of removal contexts because, unlike asylum and withholding of removal, “[t]he CAT regulation does not bar relief if an applicant could relocate”
• reviewing the agency’s conclusion about the safety of relocation for substantial evidence
• asylum and withholding of removal are unavailable if a petitioner could avoid persecution by relocating internally
• “[W]e do not believe that an applicant can be said to have the ability to ‘relocate’ within her home country if she would have to remain in hiding there.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).