Aneta Lumaj v. Alberto R. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an asylum applicant had not suffered past persecution where she “claim[ed] to have been beaten and to have suffered some bodily injuries, but she was not detained, imprisoned, tortured, or sexually assaulted in any way”
• holding that an isolated incident where petitioner was attacked at a political rally, beaten, and forced into a car in an unsuccessful attempt to abduct and sexually assault her did not rise to the level of persecution
• noting that if an incident was isolated, with “no evidence . . . that the attack was any more than a random criminal act,” it was less likely to be sufficient for a finding of persecution
• noting that because an incident was isolated, with “no evidence . . . that the attack was in any way more than a random criminal act,” it was less likely to be sufficient for a finding of persecution
• finding no persecution where police officers attacked, beat, and attempted to kidnap petitioner, reasoning that “one, isolated incident, of limited severity, does not constitute ‘persecution’”
• rejecting a claim of well-founded fear of future persecution because although a widespread threat of violence existed in Albania, there was no evidence that individuals were targeted on political grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).