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MANZOOR v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 00-1971.

254 F.3d 342 (2001)

Zeeshan MANZOOR, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Immigration & Naturalization Service Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Madeline G. Compton for petitioner.

Lyle D. Jentzer, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Terri J. Scadron, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Zeeshan Manzoor petitions for relief from the denial of his claims for asylum and withholding of deportation. To qualify for asylum, an applicant must show that he or she faces a well-founded fear of persecution. The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA or Board) found that Manzoor had experienced past persecution in his native Pakistan on account of his political opinion, giving rise to a statutory presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution...

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