Petition for review granted on grounds that both the Immigration Judge and the BIA applied the wrong legal standard ("The immigration judge made a clear legal error by concluding that the 'facts do not compel a finding that [the applicant] suffered past persecution'”.), and case remanded for further proceedings.
Appeal dismissed on grounds that the applicant’s actions as a member of a group that burned
passenger buses and cars, threw stones, and disrupted the economic activity of merchants
in the market, while pretending to be from the opposition party in order to discredit such party, reached the level of serious criminal conduct which outweighed its political nature and therefore constituted a serious nonpolitical crime.