Mudher Jassim Mohamed Al-Saher v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that actions that were “specifically intended by officials to inflict severe physical pain on [the petitioner]” constituted torture
• recognizing that an applicant’s statements regarding the unfair distribution of food in Iraq resulted in the imputation of an anti-government political opinion
• holding that actions that were “specifically intended by officials to inflict severe physical pain on [the petitioner]” constituted torture
• holding that petitioner was tortured where he was repeatedly beaten and on a few occasions burned with cigarettes over the course of a few months in prison
• stating that the country report noted that the Iraqi Constitution prohibited torture but reported that security forces routinely tortured detainees
• recognizing as torture “sustained beatings for a month” followed by “severe beatings” and being “burned with cigarettes over an 8 to 10 day period”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).