Bajram Begzatowski v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that being repeatedly forced into life-threatening situations constituted persecution
• holding that being repeatedly forced into life-threaten- ing situations constituted persecution
• noting that the BIA should treat State Department reports “with a healthy skepticism, rather than, as is its tendency, as Holy Writ”
• noting that types of actions that might constitute persecution include “detention, arrest, interrogation, prosecution, [and] imprisonment” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that types of actions that might constitute persecution include “detention, arrest, interrogation, prosecution, [and] imprisonment” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• rejecting BIA’s attempt “to impose on asylum applicants the additional burden of establishing permanent or serious injuries as a result of their persecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).