Denada M. Bace v. John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General

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• holding that persecution of election commissioner for refusal to certify an election was on account of a political opinion
• holding that persecution of an election commissioner for failure to certify an election was on account of a political opinion
• holding that there was “ample evidence” that Albanian Democrat was perse- cuted on account of political opinion after he refused to certify fraudulent election returns in 1998
• holding that petitioner presented compelling case of persecution where he was beaten four times in less than two months, cut with a razor, and forced to watch his wife being raped
• stating that persecution includes “actions less severe than threats to life or freedom” (internal quotation marks and ci- tation omitted)
• noting that it “would be improper to find that a witness’s testimony about specific events could be ‘contradicted’ by a generalized State Department report broadly discussing conditions in the applicant’s country of origin”

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