Kaur

MEMORANDUM **

Gurbax Kaur, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming an immigration judge’s (IJ) denial of her requests for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (the Convention). The BIA determined that Kaur’s testimony was not credible, therefore, she had not met her burden of dem *916 onstrating past persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review an adverse credibility determination for substantial evidence and will uphold it unless the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1149-50 (9th Cir.1999). We deny the petition for review.

The IJ based her adverse credibility determination on her observations of Kaur’s demeanor and the fact that Kaur testified inconsistently regarding the actual or threatened molestation during her arrests, whether the police continued to seek her arrest, the date of her parents’ return to their village, and her knowledge of the various Sikh separatist organizations. We give “special deference” to the IJ’s observations of Kaur’s…