Niftaliev v. U.S. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• approving of the proposition that, in the absence of corroborating evidence, an applicant’s testimony alone may be sufficient to establish eligibility for asylum so long as it is “believable, consistent, and sufficiently detailed” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• threats, numerous interrogation and beatings during a 15-day detention' that resulted in a two-month hospitalization, and two subsequent physical attacks
• “[TJhis appeal does not concern whether corroborative evidence was available. This appeal concerns whether or not the petitioner’s credible testimony, in and of itself, establishes his past persecution.”
• alien’s testimony “in and of itself” that he was arrested, detained without food or water, interrogated, beaten, and threatened “after speaking out against the . . . government” compelled a finding of past persecution
• the cumulative effect of beatings, arrests, searches, interrogations, being imprisoned for 15 days during which he was given little food or water and threatened with being shot, and continuing to be stalked, threatened, and assaulted after relocating amounted to past persecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).