Worotikan

MEMORANDUM

Junico Paul Cómeles Worotikan (‘Woro-tikan”) is a native and citizen of Indonesia. Worotikan seeks withholding of removal and protection under the United Nations Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) because he fears that if he were to return to Indonesia, he would be persecuted and tortured by local Muslims on account of his Christian religion. The immigration judge (“IJ”) found Worotikan credible but concluded that Worotikan had no objectively well-founded fear of persecution and had not established a likelihood of torture by or with the acquiescence of the government. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) adopted this decision.

We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the BIA’s legal determinations de novo and its factual determinations for substantial evidence. Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). Because the BIA adopted the IJ’s opinion in full, we also look at the IJ’s reasoning. Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037, 1039 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc). We grant in part and deny in part Woroti-kan’s petition for review.

The facts are known to the parties, and we do not repeat them.

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