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Ninth Circuit· 3/10/2009

Wakkary v. Holder

Citations

  • 558 F.3d 1049
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 5378
  • 2009 WL 595579

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  • concluding that threats and beating by native Indonesians, without more, did not cumulatively amount to past persecution
  • holding that widespread discrimination was insufficient to show pattern and practice of persecution even where there were some incidents of persecution
  • ruling that petitioner’s past experiences, including a mugging at knifepoint and two beatings, considered cumulatively, did not compel a finding of past persecution
  • holding that “widespread” discrimination, without more, was insufficient to show a “pattern or practice” of persecution
  • holding that evidence of widespread discrimination against a particular ethnic group did not compel the conclusion that there was a pattern or practice of persecution
  • concluding that petitioner’s beating, robbery, and confrontation with a threatening mob did not rise to the level of persecution

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Judges: Paez, Berzon, Baer

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