context: It is self-evident and legally true that Zhou's suffering, endured for the safe birth of his third child, amounts to more than harassment. Zhou's flight with his wife from their home to ensure she stayed safely hidden during her pregnancy, in defiance of China's family planning policy, clearly demonstrates past persecution in addition to "other resistance."
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 667 F.3d 1308, 1314
citation_a.parenthetical: "[W]e have consistently recognized, being forced to flee from one's home in the face of an immediate threat of severe physical violence or death is squarely encompassed within the rubric of persecution, as long as the persecutors' actions are motivated by [a] protected consideration"
citation_a.sentence: See Mendoza-Pablo v. Holder, 667 F.3d 1308, 1314 (9th Cir.2012) (“[W]e have consistently recognized, being forced to flee from one’s home in the face of an immediate threat of severe physical violence or death is squarely encompassed within the rubric of persecution, as long as the persecutors’ actions are motivated by [a] protected consideration”); see also Jiang v. Holder, 611 F.3d 1086, 1093-97 (9th Cir.2010) (finding that a couple’s efforts to marry despite China’s family planning policies, to conceive a child despite a forced abortion, and to flee from home to avoid police and family planning officers constituted “other resistance” and persecution); Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153, 1158-60 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc) (finding persecution as a result of a forced gynecological examination of a woman and threats of sterilization to her partner).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 611 F.3d 1086, 1093-97
citation_b.parenthetical: finding that a couple's efforts to marry despite China's family planning policies, to conceive a child despite a forced abortion, and to flee from home to avoid police and family planning officers constituted "other resistance" and persecution
citation_b.sentence: See Mendoza-Pablo v. Holder, 667 F.3d 1308, 1314 (9th Cir.2012) (“[W]e have consistently recognized, being forced to flee from one’s home in the face of an immediate threat of severe physical violence or death is squarely encompassed within the rubric of persecution, as long as the persecutors’ actions are motivated by [a] protected consideration”); see also Jiang v. Holder, 611 F.3d 1086, 1093-97 (9th Cir.2010) (finding that a couple’s efforts to marry despite China’s family planning policies, to conceive a child despite a forced abortion, and to flee from home to avoid police and family planning officers constituted “other resistance” and persecution); Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153, 1158-60 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc) (finding persecution as a result of a forced gynecological examination of a woman and threats of sterilization to her partner).