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VUMI v. GONZALES

No. 05-6185-ag.

502 F.3d 150 (2007)

Luluengisa Chantal VUMI, Petitioner, v. Alberto GONZALES, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 31, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Bauer, Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, for Petitioner.

Nora R. Dannehy, Assistant U.S. Attorney, for Kevin J. O'Connor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Respondent.

Deborah Anker, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (Nancy Kelly and John Willshire-Carrera on the brief), Boston, MA, for Amicus Curiae, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Women Refugees Project.

Before: CALABRESI, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, SESSIONS, District Judge.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

In September 2001, petitioner Luluengisa Chantal Vumi ("Vumi"), a native and citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC"), applied for asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158, 1231, and for relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment ("CAT"), Dec. 10, 1984, S. Treaty Doc. No. 100-20, 1465...

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