Lobotomy
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10th Circuit rules cognitively impaired man’s risk of lobotomy, mistreatment in Mexico not ‘torture’
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The Denver-based federal appeals court concluded last month that a man’s risk of mistreatment or forced lobotomy in his native Mexico did not amount to “torture” that should shield him from deportation. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit noted that Javier Garcia-Botello’s request for protection under the Convention…

