Mamed Samedov v. Alberto Gonzales, 1 Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that neither a four-day detention nor a police beating leading to broken thumb and injuries to left arm constituted persecution
• explaining that if a petitioner is found ineligible for asylum for failure to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution, he is ineligible for withholding of removal, because it requires a clear probability of future persecution
• noting that “[t]orture . . . is not coterminous with persecution”
• independent analysis of CAT claim is unnecessary where alien claims torture would occur for no reason other than one of the statutory grounds for refugee status
• noting the CAT’s “narrow definition” of torture

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).