suffered by conservative persecution throughout eastern europe and specifically in his bags now petitioners argument today is a pretty simple and straightforward one is that the immigration judge  that we find completely and palatable such as not allowing free speech i don't know of bakassi is persecution if when he's saying is i'm afraid that if i continue to speak out i will be arrested and put in jail but not necessarily and beyond that is happens to fusion cases i don't know if that standing alone would be  and what the record shows is that over the last few years especially since two thousand there have been a number of reported incidents of leaders of ethnic minority groups and there's one in particular in the record the leader of ethnic tajiks group who tried to start one of these organizations promoting touching human rights he was singled out he was being held for twenty days so this combination of detention and beating clearly does  because he is already known for his activities he fears that he might be subjected to that same sort of persecution immigration judge concluded that while the experiences in this were not able what has made be discriminatory maybe harassment that they don't rise to the level of persecution these things include you know verbal abuse ethnic slurs lost a job opportunities and physical assaults on family members and we challenged the immigration judges conclusions about past persecution in part because we think that the wrong standards were applied in the immigration judge actually made some personal speculations about what mr knightley dylan had endured when he was in his back to sudan to give just one example mr nasr one claims that when he was in the military he was detained and he was beaten and when he was beaten the people who were beating him actually used ethnic slurs they compel a contrary conclusion and the important point i think for purposes of the courts the station and this argument is that even if the the record does not compel a contrary conclusion as to past persecution but argument that's right you are and a number of cases really have focused on this distinction between general levels of ethnic hostility versus being individual retargeting one of them of that we without more is insufficient to to establish that he is that quote particular risk of persecution if deported but i guess i don't see if i'm having trouble for i would write this down as to what is the evidence that suggests that people in exactly that position who have participated as leaders in ethnic minority groups have been badly beaten and detained and those things have really happened in the time that he  there may have then some discrimination or harassment but there was no persecution and that did not establish a rise to the level of a well founded fear of future persecution what is your response to of human rights activities for his ethnicity and therefore he individually would be targeted for an activity on behalf and if his wife was not active i mean i guess i just think i don't see the relevan leading a group that later on the record knows that he was one of one of the individuals who was attempting to create a cultural center  grounds and the issues before the court that the one last point that i would like to briefly make is just that on page one thirty nine of the record this is