Vladimir Ivanovich Krasnopivtsev v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America

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• concluding that the reasonableness of feared persecution is diminished when family members remain unharmed in native country
• ruling that to be eligible for withholding of removal an alien must show a clear probability that he or she will be persecuted in the country to which he or she is deported
• noting that when family members are safe in the home country and the petitioner had not been singled out for persecution, the claim of future persecution is weakened
• noting that “low-level types of intimidation or harassment are not sufficiently severe” to constitute persecution
• noting that when family members are safe in the home country and the petitioner had not been singled out for persecution, the claim of future persecution is weakened
• “Torture . . . is an extreme form of cruel and inhuman treatment; it does not include lesser forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”

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