I never misused this membership for the persecution of people or for commanding others in some professional area that I didn't understand, which often was the case".Mr Fischer's chose a career in statistics.
Jackson, among others, wanted to punish the Soviet Union for its Jewish-emigration policy, and for its persecution of dissidents like Andrei Sakharov; his criticism intensified when Ford and Kissinger, worried about antagonizing the Soviets, snubbed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
There were, of course, rather earlier precedents for this dual trial, and indeed precedents for the persecution of intellectuals generally.
He received the death penalty in 2010 for the persecution of Islamic opposition parties during Saddam's rule.
But Italian culpability for the persecution of Jews remains relatively unknown, and largely unacknowledged by Italians, Professor Pavan said.
She was known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Roman Catholicism in England.
They forgave themselves for the persecution of religion, the better to win over a population that now saw the Russian Orthodox Church as a powerful element of the new state.
Constantine was a strong Iconoclast (one opposed to the veneration of religious images) and was remembered by contemporaries for his persecution of monks who opposed his iconoclastic position.
The Kurds, who have until recently despised the Sunni Arabs for their persecution of the Kurds under Saddam Hussein, are now making amends.
Last year, the pope issued a sweeping apology for his church's sins, and in March visited the Holocaust memorial in Israel to atone for Christian persecution of Jews.
