Sentence examples for amount to persecution from inspiring English sources

As refugee lawyers Jenni Millbank and Eddie Bruce-Jones point out, criminalising same-sex relationships itself can amount to persecution.

The opposition is up in arms: it says the conviction is politically motivated and the magistrates' attacks against Mr Berlusconi amount to persecution.

The Home Office, naturally, says it is always perfectly reasonable, because modifying your behaviour to hide who you are doesn't amount to persecution.

A single incident can be sufficient to amount to persecution.

The prosecutor claims that since the crimes of murder and forcible transfer of population were done against specific ethnic groups which were identified as supporters of the PNU, these crimes amount to persecution.

Notably acts which deprive Palestinians in Gaza of their means of sustenance, employment, housing and water, that deny their freedom of movement and their right to leave and enter their own country, that limit their access to an effective remedy and could amount to persecution - a crime against humanity.

(Menem denied any malfeasance, saying that the charges amounted to "political persecution").

His "fate," Mr. Rogozin opined, amounted to "political persecution" and a disregard for human rights.

The couple is also charged with embezzlement from special presidential accounts, with forgery and with laundering ill-gotten money through Switzerland.Mr Chen, who might face a life sentence, insists he is innocent and faces what amounts to political persecution.

Tymoshenko's defence claimed the case amounted to political persecution by Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovich, and his ruling Party of Regions, motivated by a desire to exclude its most potent opponent from the political landscape.

The report documents a harrowing list of crimes, including murder, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery and persecution, which the investigators believe "undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law".