The panel considers that this practice constitutes an act of persecution linked to gender membership. […]. In the case at hand, the facts reported by the applicant fully fall within the scope of Article 7 of Legislative Decree No. 251/2007 […] and, as the applicant was a victim of personal and direct persecution based on membership of a social group (as a woman) in the form of acts specifically directed against a particular sex.
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