The report says UK Border Agency staff and the judiciary show "systemic discrimination" against those claiming asylum on the basis of sexual persecution.
Then, in 1895, Wilde went to jail, in the wake of a sexual persecution that had been set in motion by Bosie's disaster of a father.
"Before Night Falls" draws on Arenas's writings to paint an impressionistic collage of his life -- his poor rural childhood, his passion for writing, his sexual persecution in post-revolution Cuba and his AIDS-related death in 1990.
A public agog for salacious gossip followed the lives of courtesans and high-society prostitutes (such as the oft-painted Kitty Fisher), and pornography was widely available.The assumption in early modern England that sexual persecution was essential to good social order was not unlike that of the more conservative Islamic republics today.
Last week, security agents turned up at Youngesp's aunt's house and told the terrified woman they would kill her niece if they found her – a chilling echo of Jammeh's own vow to slay any citizens attempting to seek asylum abroad for sexual persecution.
Still others have come in search of freedom from religious, ethnic, gender, and sexual persecution.
Gbagbo is being prosecuted on four counts of crimes against humanity: murder, rape and other sexual violence, persecution and other inhuman acts, between 28 November 2010 and May this year.
The crimes "entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation," it says.
* Željko Mejakić was found guilty of crimes against humanity (murder, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution, and other inhumane acts).
Duško Knežević was found guilty of crimes against humanity (murder, torture, sexual violence, persecution, and other inhumane acts).
Momčilo Gruban was found guilty of crimes against humanity (murder, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution, and other inhumane acts).
