Kyaw Zwar Tun v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that torture is “something more severe than the kind of treatment that would suffice to prove persecution”
• holding that “torture requires proof of something more severe than the 5 kind of treatment that would suffice to prove persecution”
• refusing to accept an IJ’s adverse credibility determination, but denying review on the 7 alternative basis that the applicant failed to present reasonably available corroborative evidence
• remanding where agency failed to determine whether foreign government exhibited a pattern or practice and whether government officials were likely to become aware of the petitioner’s activities
• participating in activities of pro-democracy group 14 and attending demonstrations establishes a political opinion
• “An applicant may be required to provide any reasonably available documentation to corroborate the elements of her claim.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).