Dinara Alymova v. Eric Holder, Jr.

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Dinara Bertursunovna Alymova, a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic (often called Kyrgyzstan), seeks review of two orders of the Board of Immigration Appeals, one dismissing her applications for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture, the other denying her motion to reopen these applications. We deny both petitions.

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In 1991, Kyrgyzstan declared independence from the Soviet Union. Later that decade, Alymova, a language instructor at a university in Kyrgyzstan, became involved in politics. In January 2000, she joined the Ar-Namys…