Stepanyan

MEMORANDUM **

Maro Stepanyan, a native of Iran and citizen of Armenia, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ summary affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the IJ’s decision for substantial evidence. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s decision that petitioner failed to establish eligibility for asylum. Petitioner attended a religious meeting which was interrupted by police. Police arrested several men, but petitioner escaped and was never arrested or detained. Because petitioner was never arrested or harmed, and she practiced her religion after this experience for months without incident, she fails to establish eligibility for asylum. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016 (9th Cir.2003).

Because petitioner failed to demonstrate that she was eligible for asylum, it follows that she did not satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See *694…