The Applicant is a Sudanese national and has been the human rights officer of the anti-government group Sudan Liberation Movement-Unity (SLM-Unity), based in Switzerland, since 2009. He applied for asylum in Switzerland twice, in 2004 and 2009. He claimed to the Swiss refugee authority that he fled his home village in North Darfur, Sudan, when it was attacked by Janjaweed, a government-backed militia that operates in Darfur and is in conflict with Darfur rebel groups.