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Eighth Circuit 8th Cir: Finds Persecution But Agrees Country Conditions Have Changed in Liberia | 8th Cir: Finds Persecution But Agrees Country Conditions Have Changed in Liberia |
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Cooke v. Mukasey, No. 07-2939 (8th Cir.) August 14, 2008 BOWMAN, Smith, Gruender Although finding that Cooke, a former member of the political party Liberian Ministry of Finance (MOF), and his wife, were persecuted on account of his political beliefs by Charles Taylor supporters, the Court concluded that “substantial evidence supports the IJ’s determination that there are ‘substantially changed country conditions from the time that [the Cookes] left Liberia.’” Citing Redd v. Mukasey, _F3d_, 2008 WL 2889369 (8th Cir. July 29, 2008), the Court found that as Taylor was no longer in power and is on trail for war crimes and there was no objective evidence that anyone in the current Liberian government poses a threat to Cooke’s safety, there was no well founded fear if future persecution established.
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