activist from Uganda

The asylum officer asked:

 How was the declaration prepared? Who filled out DS-160? Is everything in it true? Did you review it before filing? Was it accurate?

Does DS-160 ask about international travel? Why?

Why are you seeking asylum?

Why would gov’t hurt you?

What is your political affiliation?

Why did you join the opposition party in 2008, instead of in 2009?

What values did you share with that party?

How often did you participate? What did you do? Sit in a chair in silence?

Did you listen to others discuss alternatives?

What resonated with you, about the party?

The FDC promotes what?

Did the FDC ever produce or write a tract? What did it say?

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Did you suffer any physical harm in your country?

What did the bad guy say? What language was he speaking?

You went to a job interview, and in the middle, they started speaking their own language?

What was your job at the FDC? Where did you do things? In an office?

On the sidewalk? At a local school? Under a tree?

What did you do, between 2007 and 2010?

Where were you at the moment of your first arrest?

How did you get released?

You went to a political meeting in 2011? What ideas were discussed? What was debated? What alternatives were proposed?

How did you get this document from the hospital? Are words mis-spelled on it? Is the font different, from one line to another

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Tell me about one meeting you went to in 2013? What ideas were discussed or debated? Were any votes taken?

Why do you believe the officer hit you?

Where were you, at the moment of your second arrest? Why were you arrested? What did guard #1 say? What did guard #2 say?

Where is the original police letter?

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