Viktor Valioukevitch v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• upholding IJ and BIA decision because State Department Reports indicated that Belarussian government respects its citizens’ guarantee of religious freedom
• rejecting an asylum claim where incidents had not “occurred with the imprimatur” of government officials
• no well-founded fear of persecution where government guaranteed freedom of religion and ability to proselytize
• \the harm [petitioner] endured must have been inflicted either by the government of Belarus or by persons or an organization that the government was unwilling or unable to control\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).