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BAKUAYA v. MUKASEY

Nos. 07-1667, 07-2439.

533 F.3d 39 (2008)

Akofa Ayawa BAKUAYA, Petitioner, v. Michael MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 14, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Kaplan, Ilana Etkin Greenstein, Jeremiah Friedman, Maureen O'Sullivan and Kaplan, O'Sullivan & Friedman, LLP on brief for petitioner.

Joseph A. O'Connell, Jamie Dowd, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Michelle Latour, Assistant Director, on consolidated brief for respondent.

Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, Akofa Ayawa Bakuaya, a native of Togo, arrived in the United States in 1989 on a student visa. In 1993, she filed an asylum application—later supplemented by an amended application filed in 1999—claiming that her father, uncle and brother had been killed by Togolese officials on account of their tribal affiliation (membership in the EWE tribe) and political activities (membership in the...

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