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9th Circuit Says Christians In Indonesia Face Likely Persecution, Torture

By Howard M. Friedman

In Pelle v. Holder, (9th Cir., March 4, 2010), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Board of Immigration Appeals should have applied disfavored group analysis in deciding whether appellant faced a clear probability of future persecution. Christians who are not ethnic Chinese are a disfavored group in Indonesia. Further, in the court's view, there was ample evidence that the Indonesian government is aware, and possibly complicit, in torture inflicted on Christians by Muslim extremists.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 07, 2010 (boomark / email).