has to show a fear of past persecution and a well founded fear of future persecution and we contend that what happened to her having been fired from her job been sexually a and threats to her life and psyched and threats to psychological commitment and then her family members including her child being kicked out of school and beaten up and meet the elements if you consider them not asylum and also said that the sexual assault couldn't be tied to her religious beliefs and i think the court in some of its decisions has seen that the nature of a form of so because she was a jehovah's witness well firstly she says in her declaration that while this was happening he was insulting her religion and afterwards there were phone calls to her telling her that she would be committed to a psychological institution and she didn't stop with her religion you think that he he would not have been so sexually aggressive with this woman if she had been a member of another faith well that's where the issue that the people were persecuting homosexuals because of the nature of what of what they did the record shows that use of psychologists to to deter and to punish and to harass and persecute but she also fled the country before and her religion the question and that maybe so the question before us however is whether on the record compels him that this sexual assault was from what was said to her why she was there in her old employer's office was because she had been fired for her religion and then this unusual event occurred to her and at the time there were other incidents about her religious beliefs afterwards then she received phone calls also relating to psychology commitment and her religious belief and the fact that she knew that that they use religion in th country as a way to intimidate people for their religion and it was a very symbolic act to have a psychologist there who had the power to commit her to do this to her as a way to deter her from her religious practice what was the relationship between the psychologist and her employer all of the likely containing was that it was a private psychologist who was brought there that day to give her a psychological evaluation before they give her her back pa there's nothing else on the record to indicate that he was an employee of them but i don't think that the intimidated value of having a psychologist lawyer when psychologists and religion are intertwined is of a person i don't understand the newspapers for which she worked were controlled by an editor whose husband was a powerful man in the in the russian government and it appears from the record and there's nothing explicit about it that the she's claiming that it was my own government or people that the government were unwilling to protect her from because she was in the front of her goal as a writer and she was also writing and editing a jehovah's witness newspaper and she was being suppressed by elements of the elements that either independently of the government or with the acquiescence of the government were hostile to her to her behavior and wanted to change it because they were hostile to her religion and  dissidents or people who aren't orthodox you know why should we ignore the evidence in the record that they do have as witnesses who have been able to hold their own or expand during this period of time in russia well i think that the record is a mixed bag when it talks about the progress that the jehovah's witnesses are made the immigration judge pointed to the some positive aspects about registration but well the contention is that having been fired from her job and the sexual assault and the threatening phone calls and the threats to psychological commitment and then a child being taken out of school and beat to press rep for the regional government and this was after she was publishing articles and because she was part of a few articles and she even had her own radio program so we are now down to do hope this witness and the one act that happened there was a private action by an editor she was writing articles for two or three three magazines and this woman was trying to buy all the magazines and she said she wrote articles to jut to fulfill her commitment to jehovah's witnesses to if she's thinking of starting a third jehovah's witness magazine there may not be no need for it any more plus the fact and nobody seems to have noticed this but when she went to apply for her visa on june fourteenth there for the court there are seventy of the records she had a contract with the navy which is a government organization and that's how she tried to get her visa because of the navy contract she had so she was not denied employment she was not harassed by the government what happened to her as a result of this one incident when she was brought in and locked in a room and sexually assaulted was definitely horrific but in no way was it state action it was not government sponsored authorized we don't know why it happened we don't know if the psychologist had the authority to commit her to an institution we know that she believed it but that satisfies the subjective grab the objective evidence is she was assaulted in the room we don't know why this happened and just because she said he told her she was a jehovah's witness doesn't make it the purpose of the persecution was to discourage the practice the articles that she wrote for which she edited a newspaper that was independent of the three newspapers where she was a freelancer i think the record got muddled because of some translation issues but i