Sarhan v. Holder

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• concluding that proposed social group of “women in Jordan who have (allegedly) flouted repressive moral norms, and thus who face a high risk of honor killing” was cognizable because it was not defined solely by its risk of persecution
• concluding that proposed social group of “women in Jordan who have (allegedly) flouted repressive moral norms, and thus who face a high risk of honor killing” was cognizable because it was not defined solely by its risk of persecution
• finding that the Jordanian government's chronic refusal to make real efforts towards protecting women from honor killings constituted acquiescence under the CAT
• \[The applicant] faces death because of a widely-held social norm in Jordan -- a norm that imposes behavioral obligations on her and permits [male persecutors] to enforce them in the most drastic way.\
• women who “in accordance with social and religious norms in Jordan, are accused of being immoral criminals and, as a consequence, face the prospect of being No. 11-1989 9 killed without any protection from the Jordanian govern- ment.”

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