Boktor

MEMORANDUM **

Mishil Ramzy Farag Boktor, a native and citizen of Egypt, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) order denying his application for asylum. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence. Ramos-Vasquez v. INS, 57 F.3d 857, 861 (9th Cir.1995). We deny the petition for review.

We decline to dismiss Boktor’s pro se appeal for failure to follow Fed. R.App. P. 28 because the government was not prejudiced and “fully and capably briefed” the issues. Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 933-34 (9th Cir.2000).

We accept Boktor’s testimony as true because the BIA did not adopt the IJ’s adverse credibility finding. See Krotova v. Gonzales, 416 F.3d 1080, 1084 (9th Cir.2005).

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that Boktor did not establish past persecution. The record does not compel the conclusion that Boktor’s arrest and the horse cart incident were on account of a protected ground. See Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1177-78 (9th Cir.2004) (holding that random criminal acts bore no nexus to a protected ground). The record does not…