Ajanel

MEMORANDUM *

Petitioner Esgar Orlando Perez Ajanel seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of his claim for asylum, under the Transitional Rules of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(1). Because there is compelling evidence in the record demonstrating that he was persecuted in his native country of Guatemala on account of an actual or im *969 puted political opinion, and has a well-founded fear of continued persecution, we grant the Petition for Review.

In support of his claim, Perez testified that he was a member of a student humanitarian organization at his university that provided economic aid to Guatemalan refugees residing in southern Mexico. Petitioner and three other student group members were summoned to meet with a member of the Guatemalan government who informed them that the government believed the refugees to be guerillas and warned them to cease their humanitarian activities. Soon after this meeting, Perez and other members of his group began receiving death threats by mail and phone. Within months of the meeting, two of the four group members who attended the meeting were kidnapped. One was…