Harutyunyan
Harutyunyan v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM ***
Tamara Harutyunyan, a native of Azerbaijan and citizen of Armenia, and her daughter, Lolit Yingonian, a native and *200 citizen of Armenia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence and reverse only if the evidence compels a contrary conclusion. Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000). We review due process challenges de novo., Salgado-Diaz v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1158, 1162 (9th Cir.2005). We deny the petition.
Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s denial of asylum. Being detained for one day by police and assaulted a month later on the street does not rise to the level of persecution on account of an enumerated ground. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339-40 (9th Cir.1995) (finding no persecution or well-founded fear of persecution where alien was stopped at a roadblock, detained for four to six hours, hit in the stomach, kicked, and the opposing ethnic group pelted his house with…