The First Circuit has determined that the Department of State Human Rights Report, coupled with the petitioner’s testimony that his political party had disbanded and the absence of harm to his non-politically active relatives in the his home country, was insufficient to rebut the presumption of future persecution.

The full text of Mendez Esteban v. Garland can be found here:

http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/22-1215P-01A.pdf

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