Shah

MEMORANDUM ***

Saiyad Saheed Shah, a native and citizen of Fiji, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance without opinion of an immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction under former 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). See Kalaw v. INS, 133 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1997). We review for substantial evidence, Melkonian v. Ashcroft, 320 F.3d 1061, 1065 (9th Cir.2003), and deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s finding that Shah failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution. Shah’s six hour detention, during which he was beaten, was *913 not so egregious as to compel a finding of past persecution. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339 (9th Cir.1995) (holding that four to six hour detention including physical abuse did not compel a finding of persecution). The record does not compel the conclusion that the two robberies Shah suffered were anything other than random criminal acts. See Rostomian v. INS, 210 F.3d 1088, 1089 (9th Cir.2000) (holding that random isolated criminal acts perpetrated by anonymous thieves do not…