Law

participating in persecution

A recent case – Chen v. U.S. Atty. Gen., — F.3d —, 2008 WL 150205 (11th Cir. 2008) – discussed a woman’s application for asylum status. Chen lived in China and worked at a governmental family planning office. Her job was to watch over the pregnant women who had violated the country’s family planning policies until they were forced to abort the fetuses. After about a month of working there, she released a woman who was eight months pregnant and was subsequently fired. She feared worse, and so she fled to Thailand and then the US two years later (in 2005).