# Imad Selim Nasser v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · October 2, 1984 · 744 F.2d 542

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9472657

## Case

- **Full name:** Imad Selim NASSER, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** October 2, 1984
- **Citations:** 744 F.2d 542; 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 18034
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Edwards
- **Judges:** Edwards, Martin, Walinski
- **Cited by:** 9 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I cannot join in sending appellant Nasser back to Iraq on the present record, which totally fails to resolve Nasser’s claims of past and prospective religious and political persecution of him and his family. Nasser claims that his father, a Christian, had been beaten by a Baath mob and died as a result of the beating. Nasser also claims that he had been beaten by Baath agents in 1980 because he refused to join their party. Although I recognize that his testimony may be “self-serving” (as is any effort to save one’s life), I cannot on this record ignore or discount it as the INS has done. I would remand for taking of further evidence bearing on the acts of persecution to which Nasser has testified under oath.

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