Sentence examples for definition of persecution from inspiring English sources
Belief is one thing, but actively trying to harm and deprive other people of their rights is the definition of persecution".
As Charles Clarke, the former Labour home secretary, has observed: "These are wide-ranging categories which, depending on your definition of persecution, probably cover hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people living in a world where international communications means that more and more people are aware of their 'rights' and seek to take them up".
If one loophole is plugged, human-rights lawyers would strive to find another.The real issue with the law is not its wording, but the generous way in which British courts have interpreted it: plenty of appeals, for example, and a wide definition of persecution.
That is the very definition of persecution.
Since these acts were targeted at people who were believed to support the Orange Democratic Movement or who were part of the Luo, Luhya and Kalenjin ethnic groups the prosecutor further claims that these crimes meet the definition of persecution as a crime against humanity.
They are all by definition survivors of persecution, torture or warfare.
The group deported on Monday included economic migrants as well as others who fit the definition of refugees with "a well-founded fear" of persecution, experts said.
Judge Posner chides the immigration board's lack of useful definitions to distinguish between harassment and the sort of persecution that guarantees a grant of asylum.
The refugee visas are given to applicants abroad who are deemed to have a well-founded fear of persecution, in accord with the United Nations definition of a refugee.
Under that definition, Mr. Cooper said, a refugee must have a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
They clearly fit the universally accepted definition of refugees which includes people who can't go home because of persecution for religious beliefs.
