Legal Opinion
Yordanos Muhur v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 2004No. 02-3597PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Yordanos Muhur asks us to set aside the order that she be removed (deported) from this country. The order followed the denial of her request for asylum. She presented evidence intended to establish the following facts. She was born to a Christian family in Eritrea in 1974, at a time when it was a province of Ethiopia, though of course it later became and remains an independent country. When she was about 17 she moved with her family to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. She became a Jehovah’s Witness in 1992, Five years later she married a Muslim Ethiopian who…
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