Legal Opinion
Arout Melkonian v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 4, 2003No. 01-71231PublishedCited by 289 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Arout Melkonian (“Melkoni-an”), an ethnic Armenian and a Christian, lived in Abkhazia, an autonomous region within Georgia, from his birth in 1959 until September of 1992, when he fled across the Russian border to escape kid-naping by ethnic-Abkhaz Separatists. He subsequently left Russia and, in early 1994, entered the United States illegally and applied for asylum and withholding of deportation under sections 208(a) and 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158, 1253(h) (1994). The Immigration Judge (“IJ”) denied…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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