A FEDERAL APPEALS court took the unusual step Thursday of overriding the Board of Immigration Appeals, which denied asylum to a Colombian activist who was kidnapped, beaten and threatened by a leftist guerrilla group.
A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that Javier Mauricio Martinez Ruiz’s “kidnapping, physical assaults and threatening phone calls” rise to the level of persecution. It remanded his case to the federal immigration court in Miami.
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