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HENRIQUEZ-RIVAS v. HOLDER

No. 09-71571.

707 F.3d 1081 (2013)

Rocio Brenda HENRIQUEZ-RIVAS, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 13, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Saad Ahmad (argued), Fremont, CA, for Petitioner.

Walter Manning Evans (argued), Jeffrey Lawrence Menkin , United States Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Kannon K. Shanmugam (argued), Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

Opinion by Judge BEA; Concurrence by Judge McKEOWN; Dissent by Chief Judge KOZINSKI.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

Rocio Brenda Henriquez-Rivas petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") sustaining the government's appeal of an Immigration Judge's ("IJ") grant of asylum, and denying her applications for withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against Torture. Henriquez-Rivas claims she is entitled to asylum because, as a person who testified...

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