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FELEKE v. I.N.S.

No. 96-2243.

118 F.3d 594 (1997)

Wolde Amanuel FELEKE, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 1, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janis M. Clay (argued), Minneapolis, MN, for Petitioner.

Joan E. Smiley, Washington, DC, argued (Frank W. Hunger, on the brief), for Respondent.

Before MAGILL, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Wolde Amanuel Feleke appeals the denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation by the Board of Immigration Appeals. We remand for further proceedings.

I. BACKGROUND

Feleke is Ethiopian. He contends he will be subject to persecution if he is deported. By way of background, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown by a coalition of opposition groups in 1974. A Marxist/Leninist regime led by Mengistu...

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