Parastoo Fatin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

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• holding that persecution based on gender may constitute persecution based on mem- bership in a particular social group
• holding that “the concept of persecution does not encompass all treatment that our society regards as unfair, unjust, or even unlawful or unconstitutional”
• holding that a subgroup of Iranian feminists who 955 Cite as 23 I&N Dec. 951 (BIA 2006) Interim Decision #3535 refuse to conform to the government’s gender-specific laws and social norms may constitute a particular social group
• concluding that this interpretation by the BIA of the term persecution was permissible
• finding that persecution within the Act does not encom- pass all treatment that society regards as unfair, unjust, or even unlawful or unconstitutional
• stating that Iranian women who refuse to conform to the Ira- nian Government’s gender-specific laws and social norms may well satisfy the Acosta definition

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