A reasonable factfinder might have determined that the alien petitioning to stay in the country was not persecuted in his home country due to his political beliefs, but rather that the police had mistreated him because they were attempting to use him as an informant against the political organization, believing him not to be actually committed to the cause.
A reasonable factfinder might have determined that persecution of a spouse for being Roma indicates likely future persecution of the petitioner himself.
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/16/16-60851-CV0.pdf
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.