Legal Opinion
Rizaja Pelinkovic, Sanija Pelinkovic, and Svebor Pelinkovic v. John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 28, 2004No. 02-3065PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
I. Background
Rizaja Pelinkovic applied for asylum in 1995. His wife, Sanija, and his son, Sve-bor, made derivative claims under 8 U.S.C. § 1153(d). The Pelinkovics are Muslims and ethnic Albanians from the city of Bar in Montenegro, a part of the former Yugoslavia. They fled their home for the United States in February of 1992 due to Riza-ja’s fear that the military would forcibly reactivate him and send him to Croatia to fight in a war in which he did not believe. The family also complained of generalized discrimination, mistreatment, and economic hardship based on their…
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