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8th Cir. Denies Asylum to Christian Nigerian Soccer Player Print E-mail
Tuesday, 19 August 2008

 Alanwoko v. Mukasey (8/14/08)

WOLLMAN, Murphy, Smith 

 

Alanwoko was a well-known Nigerian soccer player, also a Christian, who was persecuted on account of his religion.  The Court found that substantial evidence supported the lower courts’ findings that he was not fleeing persecution when he came to the US because he had traveled t and from Gambia, for soccer tournaments, for several years and had never sought asylum.  Additionally, the Court held that the BIA did not err in denying Alanwoko’s motion to reopen as the new evidence that Alanwoko presented, articles regarding the attempted shooting of a popular Christian soccer player, did not show that the soccer player was specifically targeted because he was Christian and thus did not help establish that there was persecution of Christians ins in Nigeria.

 

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