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ZAHEDI v. I.N.S.

No. 98-71179.

222 F.3d 1157 (2000)

Abbas ZAHEDI, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 6, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Marchi (argued) & Michele Carney, Carney & Marchi, P.S., Seattle, Washington, for the petitioner.

Susan Houser (argued) & Carl H. McIntyre, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

Before: FLETCHER, HALL, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Abbas Zahedi, a citizen of Iran, petitions for review of the determination of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA" or "Board") that he has not established asylum eligibility. Zahedi was involved in an endeavor with one other person to translate and informally distribute a Farsi edition of Salman Rushdie's banned novel The Satanic Verses. His partner in the project was arrested and apparently tortured by the Iranian authorities; death...

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