Opinion ID: 724042
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Heading: Arrests as Acts of Persecution

Text: 8 Petitioner cited his arrest in relation to a fight at a restaurant. This arrest would not amount to persecution on account of political opinion or any other enumerated ground. At the most, it was an incident of corrupt police officials using their power to file false charges and take bribes. 9 The one incident of an arrest of a family member at a church may provide the basis for past persecution of petitioner's family on account of religion. Such past persecution creates a rebuttable presumption that the Petitioner has a well-founded fear of persecution if he is repatriated. Singh v. Ilchert, 69 F.3d 375, 378 (9th Cir.1995). However, that presumption is rebutted by Petitioner's own testimony that he and other residents of his village were able to attend church regularly in China up until the time that he left. 10