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Persecution meaning
The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.
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Some have noted how the personal history of the Jewish former state senator, who fled persecution in Iran as a girl, starkly contrasts with the incumbent’s lies about his grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution during World War II.
Christian persecution around the globe reached an unprecedented level at the end of 2019, with over 260 million Christians facing “high levels of persecution,” Open Doors revealed Wednesday.
This German era of persecution and denial of citizenship rights to Jews bears comparisons with persecution based on the imputation of inferiority to African Americans.
Immigrants who have suffered past persecution, or who fear future persecution, on account of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or particular social group may.
Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.
Its regular rubrics were "Arrests, Searches, Interrogations", " Extra-judicial Persecution ", "In Prisons and Camps ", "Samizdat update", "News in brief", and "Persecution of Religion".
Over time sections were added on the "Persecution of the Crimean Tatars ", "Persecution and Harassment in Ukraine ", " Lithuanian Events", and so on.
Some read the epistle to be describing persecution in the form of social discrimination, while some read them to be official persecution.
A 2018 case involving forced marriage and sexual violence in Mali was the first in which an ICC prosecutor charged the crime of gender persecution.
Afraid of persecution by the governments in both countries, around 100 families are staying in temporary bamboo and tarpaulin shelters on the border near Moreh in Manipur, the refugee committee said.
After 23 of civil rule, this executive rascality is a mismatch to the dream of Nigerians who suffered and faced persecution to get the military out of power.
After two years of arrests and persecution against dissidents in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenka’s regime is looking for new ways of dealing with the fallout of the post-election protests that shook the country in 2020 and 2021.
Ahmedis, who are declared non-Muslim by the state, are perhaps the worst targets of persecution.
And if that wasn't bad enough, here's a recent Georgetown Law graduate describing his treatment and persecution for questioning a regulation that has since been shown to be defective.
And not just any mugshot — it’s the fiercest portrait of righteous rage in the face of persecution in just about ever.
An Igbo group, under the aegis of Coalition of Igbo Unions of Nigeria (CIUN) has cautioned the governor of Abia state against alleged persecution of Northerners in the state.
Anti-Zionism is a response to the state of Israel’s treatment of indigenous Palestinians and its policy of displacing the Palestinian population to allow the resettlement of Europe’s Holocaust survivors and any others wishing to escape persecution.
A refugee is a person who has fled their own country because they are at risk of serious human rights violations and persecution there.
Arora admitted there was some religious persecution of minorities in Pakistan, but added that there are such problems everywhere.
As for the driver, he must have had concerns of his own: Though he didn’t know we were journalists, he knew he was transporting “fugitives” fleeing the junta’s arbitrary persecution.