More Questions:
-what happened during each day of your detention?
Did you belong to an organization in your country?
why did you decide to join?
what is the goal or platform of that organization?
What was your role?
what did you do? what would a movie camera record you doing?
-standing on the street, distributing pamphlets? walking and knocking on doors?
-sitting at a computer, sending out emails and talking on the phone?
Did your party ask you to do anything? what?
You sat in a chair, in silence, alone in a room, and had some private thoughts?
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did you suffer any injuries? NO? then what are you complaining about? what do you need asylum for?
There are physical injuries, which require the attention of a doctor?
Did you suffer "emotional" harm? Yes? why didn't you say so, earlier?
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did a member of your family receive a threat? when?
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Have you done any political activity here in USA?
Did you stand on the sidewalk, holding a sign?
Why haven't you joined an organization here in USA?
Did you ever voice your opinion, publicly, here in USA?
why not? don't you care about the problems in your country?
Did your government hear what you said about it, here in USA?
how do you know that?
-who says, besides you, that your government has spies here in USA?
If you return to your country, what would happen?
You had problems in the capitol city of your country? why not live in a city 3 hours away?
Wouldn't you be safe there?
Is there anything else?
Is there anything else?
what is your best exhibit, that explains about the problems in your country?
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
an activist from Congo-Kinshasa
The Government lawyer asked these questions:
-what is the platform of your political party?
-did the party ask or demand that the president of your country do something?
-did your party give you a membership card?
-did you do anything to bring yourself to the attention of your government while you lived in your country?
Does your government control the daily lives of the citizens?
Do you know any similarly-situated persons who suffered harm?
Were you suprised when you were arrested?
Is your government inconsistent at times? one Department does something, but another department does something different?
-for example, the police department arrests you, but the passport department gives you a passport?
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was there a time, when you were arrested, and the police did NOT hit you?
Is the scar on your leg from falling off of a bicycle, not from being hit by police?
"moral torture" means what?
You went to New york City and protested? your government knows you protested?
But two months later, the police went to your house in your country to look for you? They do not know where you were?
The government people in NYC did, or did not, give info to the police department in your country?
Do members of your political party sit in Parliament?
-what is the platform of your political party?
-did the party ask or demand that the president of your country do something?
-did your party give you a membership card?
-did you do anything to bring yourself to the attention of your government while you lived in your country?
Does your government control the daily lives of the citizens?
Do you know any similarly-situated persons who suffered harm?
Were you suprised when you were arrested?
Is your government inconsistent at times? one Department does something, but another department does something different?
-for example, the police department arrests you, but the passport department gives you a passport?
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was there a time, when you were arrested, and the police did NOT hit you?
Is the scar on your leg from falling off of a bicycle, not from being hit by police?
"moral torture" means what?
You went to New york City and protested? your government knows you protested?
But two months later, the police went to your house in your country to look for you? They do not know where you were?
The government people in NYC did, or did not, give info to the police department in your country?
Do members of your political party sit in Parliament?
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