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Immigration Litigation Update 1st Cir Denied PFR, No Persecution Shown for Indonesian Protestant Asylum Seeker | 1st Cir Denied PFR, No Persecution Shown for Indonesian Protestant Asylum Seeker |
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Sinurat v. Mukasey (8/8/08)
LYNCH, Selya and Howard
The First Circuit found that Sinurat failed to establish both past persecution and an objectively reasonable fear of future persecution on account of his religious views and practices. While Sinurat tried to argue that since the IJ stated it was “unclear” if in 1992 when Sinurat was in high school, an attack by Muslim high school students was because Sinurat was Christian or because of school rivalries, the de novo standard is required. However, the Court concluded that since the IJ and BIA both conclude that regardless of the students’ motive, this one time incident did not amount to past persecution, there was no merit in Sinurat’s argument. Finally the Court concluded that IJ and BIA “reasonably found no connection between the Indonesian government’s treatment of Christians generally and the isolated attack on Sinurat.”
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