In legal documents, Miguel Benitez Mirabal said that a tattoo artist in Cuba is considered a subversive profession. In the judicial review application, Mirabal (36), from Havana, said he had already suffered such abuse and been detained for expressing creative, personal and political views. “The test as to whether a claim is clearly unfounded is an objective one and the threshold is high. “The reasons must be intelligible and they must be adequate,” Nelsons stated, arguing that CBC had failed to meet that test. They also asked for an order quashing the decision and remitting the asylum application to CBC.