Mamadou Ndom v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “cumulative effect of harms that might not individually amount to persecution may support an asylum claim”
• holding that two deten- tions, for a total of 25 days, in “dark, crowded cells without formal charges,” “shackled in cuffs that prevented him from straightening his legs,” and “forced to urinate in his clothes” along with threats constituted persecution
• suggesting that, under such cir- cumstances, it would be “exceptionally unfair” to give the government another opportunity to present such information
• noting that “past persecution experienced by an applicant [is more likely] inflicted on account of a protected ground where similar acts are regularly experienced by others who share the applicant’s protected affiliation”
• finding that threats and detentions for a total of twenty-five days constitutes persecution
• describing history of the MFDC and human rights abuses committed by the Senegalese government

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).