The Fifth Circuit granted the petition for review of the denial of the Ethiopian petitioner’s application for asylum and withholding of removal, finding that the BIA failed to consider several factors essential to determining whether one central reason for the Ethiopian government’s detention and maltreatment of the petitioner was persecution on account of a protected ground.
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