Yi Feng Zheng v. U.S. Attorney General

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• concluding that a five-day detention where there was no evidence of harm did not compel a finding of past persecution
• concluding that “Zheng’s five-day detention during which he was not harmed does not compel the conclusion that he experienced past persecution”
• concluding that there was no persecution where the petitioner was detained for five days but suffered no injuries
• recognizing that when a petitioner fails to establish a claim of asylum on the merits, he also fails to establish eligibility for withholding of removal or protection under the CAT
• concluding that a five-day detainment did not rise to the level of persecution
• concluding that the petitioner had not shown a reasonable probability of future persecution in part because he had safely relocated in the past, and finding no occasion to further consider whether his ability to relocate in the future was legally dispositive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).