Giuli Ivanishvili v. United States Department of Justice & Attorney General Gonzales

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• holding that “mere harassment” does not constitute persecution and defining “harassment as ‘words, conduct or action (usu[ally] repeated or persistent
• recognizing that private acts may constitute persecution if the government is shown unwilling to control such actions
• holding that harm by private actor is persecution only if government is unwilling or unable to stop it
• concluding that persecution requires that the harm suffered be sufficiently severe, rising above “mere harassment”
• holding that the harm 15 must be sufficiently severe, rising above “mere harassment”
• noting that for actions of private persons to support relief from removal, government must be unwilling or unable to control such persons

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