Legal Opinion
Rasaq Dipo Salaam v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 18, 2000No. 98-71439PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Per curiam
Rasaq Dipo Salaam petitions for review of the decision of a divided Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We grant petition for review.
I. Background
The following information is drawn from Petitioner’s application for asylum and testimony before the Immigration Judge (IJ). Rasaq Dipo Salaam, a 23-year-old Nigerian citizen, had been politically active in his home country since high school. In 1994, Salaam joined the Free Nigeria Movement (FNM), an organization whose mission is to fight government abuses. Less than one year after…
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