Sentence examples for continue to be persecuted from inspiring English sources

The defendant, Aleksandr Kalistratov, said he hoped the verdict "will be useful for my fellow believers, who continue to be persecuted in Russia".

Like the movie, the discussion is soothing, civilized and quietly touching, and because the Baha'i continue to be persecuted in Iran it's also inherently political.

We warned the prime minister a few weeks ago that Lieberman was preparing the bill and that we might support it if we were to continue to be persecuted by Meretz," Mr. Sarid's party.

Yet only a few hours later, the prime minister left a meeting with Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa no closer to securing an investigation into alleged war crimes, or an admission that many Tamils continue to be persecuted.

In many places where anti-discrimination laws exist, gay people continue to be persecuted by state authorities and wider society.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender men and women continue to be persecuted and attacked.

And over the next three decades, Spaniards continued to be persecuted for political reasons; thousands were executed by firing squad and garrotte.

After the Iran-Iraq War conflict [1980-1988], anyone living in Iraq with any connection to Iran continued to be persecuted.

Nonetheless, Solidarity members and activists continued to be persecuted and discriminated, if less so than during the early 1980s.

The martyric blood shed is nothing new for the Church, which continues to be persecuted in the present day, especially in the Middle East.

But there is no evidence that pine martens are implicated in the capercaillie's decline: in fact the capercaillie is doing best where pine martens are also thriving, and doing worst where the predator continues, illegally, to be persecuted.