Legal Opinion
Jiaren Shi v. U.S. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 2013No. 12-10997PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Jiaren Shi seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision denying him asylum. In proceedings before the immigration judge (“IJ”), Shi, a Chinese national, alleged that he had suffered past religious persecution on the basis of a 2002 incident, during which the police busted up a Christian church service in his father’s home and arrested his father, who was the leader of the church, Shi himself, and seven or eight other worship-pers. According to Shi, the police detained him for seven days, interrogating him twice and subjecting him to physical…
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