Sameh Sami S. Khouzam, A/K/A Sameh Sami Khouzam, A/K/A Sameh S. Khouzam, A/K/A Sameh Khouzam v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that acquiescence may be shown by evidence that officials knew of private parties’ abusive actions “and thereafter breach[ed] their legal responsibility to prevent [such actions]”
• holding that the applicant had committed a serious nonpolitical crime where there was reason to believe he committed a murder in Egypt
• holding that CAT “requires only that government officials know of or remain willfully blind to an act and thereafter breach their legal responsibility to prevent it.”
• holding that cognizable acquiescence requires “that government officials know of or remain willfully blind to an act and thereafter breach their legal responsibility to prevent it”
• holding that 5 acquiescence may be shown by evidence that officials knew of private parties’ abusive actions 6 “and thereafter breach[ed] their legal responsibility to prevent [such actions]”
• holding that “[i]n terms of state action, torture requires only that government officials know of or remain willfully blind to an act and thereafter breach their legal responsibility to prevent it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).