Legal Opinion
Xun Li v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 2009No. 17-10380PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
The consolidated petitions of Xun Li, Xiangzhe Cui, and He Yun Fang present the same question of law. 1 Police in the People’s Republic of China are alleged to have arrested and tortured Chinese petitioners of North Korean descent for having provided humanitarian assistance to North Koreans seeking refuge in China. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denied each of the three petitioners’ asylum applications, characterizing the Chinese authorities’ treatment of the petitioners as prosecution for a criminal act— that of harboring foreign citizens — rather than…
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