How has the US Department of Justice assessed the credibility of an alleged torture victim?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Singh v. Whitaker, 17-1620 NAC (2nd Cir. 2019):

Finally, the agency reasonably concluded that Singh failed to rehabilitate his credibility with reliable corroborating evidence. See Biao Yang v. Gonzales, 496 F.3d 268, 273 (2d Cir. 2007) ("An applicant's failure to corroborate his . . . testimony may bear on credibility, because the absence of corroboration in general makes an applicant unable to rehabilitate testimony that has already been called into question"). As discussed previously, affidavits from Singh's wife and a village leader were inconsistent with Singh's testimony regarding whether he was tortured by government officials. The reliability of these affidavits and others was further undermined by their

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