Ahmed
Ahmed v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Mehnaz Shereen Ahmed, an ethnically Indian native and citizen of Fiji, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order summarily affirming an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we grant in part and deny in part the petition for review.
Substantial record evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that the December 1999 assault on Ahmed, and the harm her family suffered after the May 2000 coup, do not rise to the level of past persecution. See Prasad v. INS, 47 F.3d 336, 339 (9th Cir.1995) (concluding petitioner suffered no past persecution when he was detained by mix of civilian and militarily-clothed ethnic Fijians, beaten, interrogated about his political involvement, and released). Moreover, the record does not compel the conclusion that Ahmed’s subjectively genuine fear of future persecution was objectively reasonable. See id. at 340 (requiring…