UN v. US, No. 04-2067. Really. The name of the petitioner is “UN.” There are two parts: the first is a CAT part, but the court concludes that, since it wasn’t raised before the BIA, it lacks jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
But, more interestingly, the court remands because the IJ seemed to think that verbal death threats were not persecution. The court, however, held that “It seems to us that credible verbal death threats may fall within the meaning of ‘persecution.’ We have indicated that a threat to life could amount to persecution.” In doing so, it sides with the Ninth Circuit in Andriasian v. INS, 180 F.3d 1033, 1042 (9th Cir. 1999).
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