Legal Opinion
Dimitri Prokopenko v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 16, 2004No. 03-2920PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Dimitri Prokopenko petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. He argues that he has been and will be persecuted in Georgia on account of his Russian ethnicity and Baptist religion.
Prokopenko, a 25 year old ethnic Russian and citizen of Georgia, belongs to an active Baptist family. Although he has never been baptized, he occasionally attended a Baptist church in Georgia. Several members of his family received asylum in the United States in…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Wolde Amanuel Feleke v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1997
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