Charath

MEMORANDUM ***

Petitioner Akidat Singh Charath (Char-ath) petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s (IJ) denial of Charath’s applications for asylum and withholding of removal, and pretermission of Charath’s application for relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) based on the IJ’s adverse credibility determination.

1. This Court reviews an adverse credibility determination under the substantial evidence standard. Don v. Gonzales, 476 F.3d 738, 741 (9th Cir.2007). “[Cjredibility findings will be upheld unless the evidence compels a contrary result.” Id. (citation omitted) (emphasis in Don). The IJ’s adverse credibility determination, based in part on Charath’s inability to recall significant events in the Punjab, including the assassination of the then-Chief Minister, at the time he was purportedly persecuted in that region, is supported by substantial evidence. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1151-53 (9th Cir.1999) (upholding adverse credibility finding in part based on petitioner’s failure to provide specificity and details outside of information contained in newspaper article upon which…