Gjergj Prela, Also Known as Grergi Prela v. John D. Ashcroft

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• concluding that repeated interrogation by police, 24-hour detention, and injury to hands does not compel finding of past persecution
• upholding a finding that several interrogations by the police, 24-hour detainment, harassment for money, and beating causing injury to an alien’s hands was not persecution
• noting that “persecution” must be more than mere harassment
• upholding BIA’s finding of no past persecution where applicant’s hands had been injured during 24 hours of detention in which he was harassed, interrogated, and threatened with death
• being detained, harassed for money, and beaten, causing hand injury, not persecution
• multiple interrogations by police, detention for twenty-four hours, harassment for money, and beating that injured hands

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).