Abdel-Masieh v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• deciding that alien twice detained and beaten for participation in large demonstrations did not establish past persecution
• concluding that “deliberate imposition of severe economic disadvantage or the deprivation liberty, food, housing, employment or other essentials of life” may amount to persecution (quotation omitted)
• holding that the BIA erred in concluding that a finding that the petitioner suffered no past persecution was sufficient to demonstrate that he also lacked any well-founded fear of future persecution
• noting that no evidence contradicted the finding that alien was arrested “simply because he was at the front of the crowd” during a demonstration
• finding it unreasonable for the Board to conclude that past actions which might not amount to persecution do not create an “outer limit” on the persecutors’ future actions
• affirming finding of no persecution where petitioner was twice arrested, detained, and beaten—though not severely—by public officials, particularly where petitioner was not singled out for his beliefs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).