Legal Opinion
Sefadin Asani v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 28, 1998No. 97-3556PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Sefadin Asani is an ethnic Albanian native of the former Yugoslavia and a citizen of Macedonia. His wife and one son live in Macedonia, and he and his other son live in the United States.
In 1983, Asani participated in a political demonstration in Kosovo which supported Albanian rights and advocated the creation of an independent Albanian state. Asani was arrested at the demonstration. The police detained him in jail for two weeks where he was confined to a cell with only enough room to stand and handcuffed to a radiator on the wall. He was deprived of sufficient food…
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