While in Canada on a student visa, your client called home and learned that his father had been arrested for criticizing the government. Your client's country has a repressive government with a long history of severe mistreatment of political dissidents. Six months after hearing this news, your client made a claim for refugee protection. He spoke to his mother last week and his father is still in detention.

1. Do you think there is an objective basis to his claim?
2. Do you need to find out more to answer that question?
3. If so, what do you need to know?