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Date Created: 2011-11-23 01:01:56+00
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FILED
                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           NOV 22 2011

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

YU PENG ZHANG,                                    No. 08-75157

               Petitioner,                        Agency No. A077-894-917

  v.
                                                  MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.

                      On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals

                             Submitted November 21, 2011 **

Before:        TASHIMA, BERZON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

       Yu Peng Zhang, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the

Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration

judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal,

and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence findings of fact,

including adverse credibility determinations. See Chebchoub v. INS, 257 F.3d

1038, 1042 (9th Cir. 2001). We dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for

review.

      We lack jurisdiction to review Zhang’s contention that the IJ did not make

an adverse credibility determination, because he failed to exhaust that issue before

the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir. 2004).

      Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination

based upon the omission from Zhang’s asylum application of the beating he

endured during his detention. See Kin v. Holder, 595 F.3d 1050, 1056-57 (9th Cir.

2010). In the absence of credible testimony, Zhang’s asylum and withholding of

removal claims fail. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir. 2003).

      Finally, because Zhang’s CAT claim is based on the same testimony found

to be not credible, and Zhang does not point to any other evidence that shows it is

more likely than not he would be tortured if returned to China, his CAT claim also

fails. See id. at 1157.

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED in part; DENIED in part.

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