Case Name: Sukhwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-03-26
Citations: 94 F. App'x 502
Docket Number: No. 02-73675
Parties: Sukhwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER,.LEAVY, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 94
Pages: 502–504

Head Matter:
Sukhwinder KAUR, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 02-73675.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 15, 2004.
Decided March 26, 2004.
Rohit K. Dharwadkar, Rai and Associates, PC, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. LeFevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Donald A. Couvillon, Esq., John C. Cunningham, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: B. FLETCHER,.LEAVY, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Sukhwinder Kaur, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000). We grant the petition for review and remand.
Because neither the IJ nor BIA made an explicit credibility finding, we accept Kaur's testimony as true. See Kataria v. INS, 232 F.3d 1107, 1113-14 (9th Cir. 2000).
The record compels the conclusion that Kaur was persecuted on account of her imputed political opinion because her credible testimony established that Indian police officers arrested and raped her because they wrongly believed she was a pro-militant activist like her father. See Lopez-Galarza v. INS, 99 F.3d 954, 959-60 (9th Cir.1996).
Because Kaur established past persecution, she is entitled to a rebuttable presumption that she possesses a well-founded fear of future persecution. See Popova v. INS, 273 F.3d 1251, 1259 (9th Cir.2001). The IJ did not consider whether the government rebutted this presumption by showing changed country conditions and, therefore, we remand for further proceedings consistent with this decision. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.