Sefadin Asani v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an IJ must inform aliens of rights even where alien is represented by counsel
• holding that one day of beating by police, following two weeks of detention and leading to loss of teeth, qualified as past persecution
• discussing the Board’s independent reopening authority in the context of new legislation affecting eligibility for relief
• remanding to the BIA to apply the correct standard for persecution under the asylum laws
• finding that persecution likely occurred where applicant was detained for two weeks, beaten resulting in the loss of two teeth, deprived of food and water, kept in a cell with no room to sit, and chained to a radiator
• focusing not on the duration of the detention but on the physical harm and deprivation of food and water

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).