Hossain

MEMORANDUM **

Mohammed Anowar Hossain petitions for review of the immigration judge’s (IJ) *160 decision to deny his claims of asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). 1 We omit the relevant facts as they are known to the parties.

Hossain claims that he is eligible for asylum because he suffered persecution in his native Bangladesh because he is a Bihari Shiite Muslim. We hold that the evidence of record does not compel a finding that Hossain was subject to past persecution. See INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 & n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992).

Hossain’s claims of past persecution and a well-founded fear of future persecution are based on instances regarding which Hossain’s testimony was highly vague, lacking any specificity in dates and details. He thus has not offered “specific facts that give rise to an inference that the applicant has been or has a good reason to fear that he or she will be singled out for persecution on one of the specified grounds----” Cardoza-Fonseca v. INS, 767 F.2d 1448, 1453 (9th Cir.1985) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted) (emphasis in original). Further, with regard to…