Case Name: Johanis DANUN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-11-22
Citations: 406 F. App'x 98
Docket Number: No. 07-73315
Parties: Johanis DANUN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: TASHIMA, BERZON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 406
Pages: 98–99

Head Matter:
Johanis DANUN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 07-73315.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 16, 2010.
Filed Nov. 22, 2010.
Robert G. Ryan, Esquire, Law Offices of Eugene C. Wong, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Julie M. Iversen, Esquire, OIL, AnhThu P. Mai, Esquire, Mark Christopher Walters, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: TASHIMA, BERZON, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Johanis Danun, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture ("CAT"). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence factual findings. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and we remand.
The record does not compel the conclusion that Danun established changed circumstances to excuse his untimely filed asylum application. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.4(a)(4); Ramadan v. Gonzales, 479 F.3d 646, 656-58 (9th Cir.2007) (per curiam). Accordingly, we deny the petition as to Danun's asylum claim.
Substantial evidence supports the agency's denial of CAT relief because Danun failed to show it is more likely than not that he would be tortured if removed to Indonesia. See Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1067-68.
In concluding Danun did not suffer past persecution, the BIA did not consider the events in the 1950s that the IJ found constituted persecution on account of religion. Therefore, we remand for the BIA to consider these events in the first instance. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).
In analyzing Danun's withholding of removal claim, the agency declined to apply the disfavored group analysis set forth in Sael v. Ashcroft, 386 F.3d 922, 927-29 (9th Cir.2004). Because intervening case law holds the disfavored group analysis applies to withholding of removal claims, see Wakkary, 558 F.3d at 1062-65, we remand to the agency for reconsideration of Danun's withholding of removal claim. See Ventura, 537 U.S. at 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353; see also Tampubolon v. Holder, 610 F.3d 1056, 1062 (9th Cir.2010) ("[A]ny reasonable factfinder would be compelled to conclude on this record that Christian Indonesians are a disfavored group.").
Each party shall bear their own costs on appeal.
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED in part; DENIED in part; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.