“The applicant – forced to leave her family home to escape her father’s violence after firmly opposing his will, which sought to make her the wife of his creditor, alone and without the support of her cohabiting mother, socially stigmatized – suffered forms of mistreatment sufficient to constitute a form of personal and direct persecution based on membership in a social group, i.e., women, in the form of ‘acts specifically directed against a particular sex’ (Article 7, second paragraph, letter f, Legislative Decree 251 of 2007). Furthermore, the asylum applicant – for having opposed, in the exercise of her fundamental right to self-determination, a forced marriage and consequently suffering acts of physical violence – faces a real risk of again suffering gender-based violence, also in light of the international sources cited above.”
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