In his short, turbulent life, he has learnt more about arbitrary persecution and murder than about how to read or write.
For example, was the persecution of Jews the direct result of intense, widespread anti-Semitism, or was it part of a more encompassing and arbitrary persecution of "unwanted populations" that intensified with the war?
The legacy of this policy since the uprising against Gaddafi began has been arbitrary persecution of black men in the belief that they are mercenaries – an attitude that has also put in danger innocent members of Libya's indigenous dark-skinned non-Arab community.
Several reports have alleged that asylum seekers returned from Australia to Sri Lanka have faced arbitrary arrest, persecution, police brutality and torture.
Parliamentary immunity is not a Member's personal privilege, but guarantees that a MEP can freely exercise his or her mandate and cannot be exposed to arbitrary, political persecution.
Although the army has stood back, the persistence of arbitrary detentions, the persecution of independent media and the continued manipulation of news by Egypt's government-owned press all feed distrust of the regime's intentions.The man from FacebookCrucially, Egypt's independent press, long pressured by the powerful ministry of information, is increasingly outspoken.
If you run an oil- and gas-rich Central Asian nation where arbitrary arrests, religious persecution and torture are your thing (who doesn't love a little waterboarding?), make sure your name and the name of your country is difficult for U.S. politicians to pronounce.
It upholds the right of people to live in freedom from persecution and arbitrary arrest; to hold any faith or none; to change religion; and to enjoy freedom of expression, which by any fair definition includes freedom to agree or disagree with the tenets of any religion.In other words, it protects individuals not religions, or any other set of beliefs.
Yet Nikitin falls wide of the mark with his claim that because the views of these women would be considered radical in any Western society, it is hypocritical for Western commentators to express outrage at the arbitrary administrative and judicial persecution directed against them.
The closure of independent media, rapes, beatings, arbitrary detentions, torture and persecution made many Hondurans feel like they were living in a flashback to the military dictatorships of the '80s.
In Iran, Gonabadi dervishes face persecution, discrimination, harassment, arbitrary arrests and attacks on their prayer houses, Amnesty said.
