Tchemkou v. Gonzales

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• concluding that petitioner who was imprisoned for three days without food and water, forced to stand in her cell, and beaten on multiple occasions so severely as to “loosen[] several teeth” had suffered past persecution
• noting that “the agency is obligated to con- sider the evidence of record as a whole” (internal quota- tion marks and citations omitted)
• stating that the treatment of the petitioner’s family members does not “speak to how [the petitioner] would be treated upon her return” because they had not participated in the protests that the petitioner had
• concluding evidence was sufficient to establish past persecution where alien was beaten by Cameroonian police, detained and deprived without food, water and sanitation facilities, forced to clean human waste off the floor, and then hospitalized for two weeks to recover

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).