Asylum Trials: Evidence and Witnesses

03 Mar 2008 /  Asylum, Convention Against Torture

The standards of proof in asylum, withholding of removal and convention against torture trials allow Immigration Judges to grant relief based on the applicant’s testimony alone. The reason for this is that the law recognizes that those who are fleeing their home countries because of persecution are often unable to obtain corroborating evidence either before they leave or afterwards. [...]

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