The phrase "active persecution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe ongoing and deliberate actions taken against individuals or groups, often in the context of discrimination or violence.
Example: "The report highlighted the issue of active persecution faced by minority communities in the region."
Alternatives: "overt oppression" or "systematic harassment".
Rome responded vigorously, turning from excommunication to active persecution and execution.
Religion flourishes in conditions of active support and active persecution; in a socially and politically liberal climate it diminishes through natural causes.
Seeing the active persecution of ethnic minorities and immigrants, I'm scared that those feelings of isolation and alienation that I experienced as a child will come back.
"Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution," he wrote in 1946.
On the one hand, Stephen's aggressive preaching inflamed Jewish ire, and the tolerance toward the new sect previously urged by the Pharisee Gamiliel gave way to active persecution.
Conservationists described the extinction as a "shocking tragedy" yesterday, caused not by active persecution but accidentally and carelessly through a combination of factors including unsustainable fishing and mass shipping.
After 305, the year when Diocletian and Maximian abdicated and Constantius became Augustus, there were no more active persecutions in the West.
Even in those countries where there is no active and ongoing persecution, Christians are second-class citizens at best.
Bormann was extremely active in the persecution of the Jews, not only in Germany but also in the absorbed and conquered countries.
Not for all: for some, it was simply a time to get together and have an active discussion about persecution, unfairness all that is unjust in the world – a three hour session once a week to learn, to read and to understand how language created characters and how perhaps what they had ignored or dismissed at school made some sense.
Of all the New England colonies, Massachusetts was the most active in persecuting the Quakers, but the Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven colonies also shared in their persecution.
