Anis Shokri Salama Malty v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that the BIA should have reopened where new evidence showed persecutors in Egypt were specifically targeting the petitioner and attacking similarly-situated family members, in contrast to previous evidence limited to incidents of harassment and discrimination
• ruling that the BIA should have reopened where new evidence showed persecutors in Egypt were specifically targeting the petitioner and attacking similarly-situated family 3 members, in contrast to previous evidence limited to incidents of harassment and discrimination
• holding petitioner’s declaration, along with Freedom House Report detailing mass arrest and torture of Coptic Christians in Egypt, sufficient to warrant reopening
• finding material changed circumstances where petitioner submitted a report describing increased violence against Coptic Christians and a declaration describing incidents of violence against petitioner’s family
• assessing whether “the new evidence is qualitatively different from the evidence presented at [the original] asylum hearing”
• finding new evidence that “the harassment had increased to the level of persecution” was “qualitatively different”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).