Mohamed Ramiz Ali v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that injuries suffered during “civil unrest between competing political factions” do not compel a finding of persecution
• holding that because the asylum applicant had not proved past persecution he was not entitled to a presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution and had to establish such a “reasonable possibility” of persecution
• “[P]ersecution is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive”
• “[P]ersecution is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive.”
• “[P]ersecution is an extreme concept that does not include every sort of treatment our society regards as offensive”
• “[H]arassment or discrimination without more does not rise to the level of persecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).