Nasser Mustapha Karouni v. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General

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• holding that evidence that homosexual acts were criminalized and actively punished in the proposed country of removal compelled the conclusion that petitioner had a well-founded fear of future persecution
• holding that evidence that homosexual acts were criminalized and actively punished in the proposed country of removal compelled the conclusion that petitioner had a well-founded fear of future persecution
• holding that asylum appli- cant’s two return visits to Lebanon to see his dying parents did not constitute substantial evidence that his fear of persecu- tion was not well-founded
• explaining that adverse credibility determinations must be upheld “unless the evidence compels a contrary result.”
• holding that asylum applicants cannot be asked to conceal their sexual orientation and there is no “appreciable difference between . . . being persecuted for being a homosexual and being persecuted for engaging in homosexual acts”
• stating that if the INS departed from a guidance memorandum or rule without reason, such action could be viewed as arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of dis- cretion

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