The applicants, a mother and adult son from Nigeria, sought judicial review of a Refugee Appeal Division decision that denied their refugee claims on the basis of a viable internal flight alternative.
The mother feared persecution from her in-laws for refusing to allow her daughter to undergo female genital mutilation, and the son feared persecution by a cult.
The Federal Court found the RAD's determination that the applicants had a viable IFA in either Abuja or Port Harcourt to be reasonable, as they failed to demonstrate that the agents of persecution had the means and motivation to pursue them or that relocation would be objectively unreasonable.
The application for judicial review was dismissed.
