Legal Opinion
Ehab S. Dawoud and Amani Y. Refaat v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 2005No. 04-1275, 04-2417PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Ehab Dawoud was detained and beaten first by Islamic radicals and then by the state security services after a video of his Christian wedding aired on an Egyptian television station. Dawoud and his wife, Amani Refaat, fled Egypt for the United States and applied for asylum after overstaying their visitors’ visas, claiming that they had been persecuted because of their religion. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied the application, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirmed in a separate opinion. Dawoud and Refaat filed a petition for review in this court, but they…
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