Nevertheless, in his case and in other emblematic examples of persecution, the United States Asylum Office has been extremely slow to provide asylum to individuals who fled persecution and share our values.
Unfortunately, Mr. Putin has signaled intent to double-down on the flawed policy of combating "extremism," so we're likely to see more examples of persecution faced by the likes of Maxim Efimov and Ruslan Makarov in the coming years.
This generally extends especially to religion and ethnicity: dictatorships do not appreciate deviation from ANY social norms, and history is full of tragic examples of persecution of groups of people based solely on these factors.
Placing political dissidents under house arrest is a transparent example of such persecution.
Within days of Finch's arrest, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was floating the notion on his Web site, Infowars, that the case was an example of political persecution.
But in Harlem, on the streets around Mr. Sharpton's office, that explanation did not carry much weight among those who have long viewed Mr. Sharpton as a persecuted hero of their community and looked at the fire as the latest example of that persecution.
What should we think, for example, of the persecution of religious parties in Middle Eastern police states?
With the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces having agreed to review Sterling's case, the Liberty Institute is now, of course, bolstering its case with amicus briefs from various supporters in its fight against this outrageous example of alleged persecution of Christians in the military.
A community is under siege: it is one of the most appalling examples of the persecution of religious minorities in Iran today.
Examples of illegal persecution are far less frequent than they used to be, but do still occur.
