Sentence examples for harsh persecution from inspiring English sources

"Montagnards face harsh persecution in Vietnam, particularly those who worship in independent house churches, because the authorities don't tolerate religious activity outside their sight or control," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of the human rights monitoring group, which is based in New York.

The protest on Tiananmen Square, during the Lunar New Year holiday and one week before President Bush is to arrive here on a visit, was intended to dramatize the harsh persecution of Chinese believers of Falun Gong, a formerly popular meditation and spiritual movement that was outlawed here in 1999 as an "evil cult".

A small military contingent landed on the southern coast of Spain in 711 in response to the pleadings of the Jewish community, which faced harsh persecution under the Visigoth rulers.

Modestus instituted harsh persecutions in Antioch of the educated pagan elite.

France was growing more intolerant at home from 1680 to 1682 there were harsh persecutions of the Protestants that paved the way for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes on October 18, 1685 and increasingly menacing on its frontiers, for as early as 1681, despite the reigning peace, Louis XIV took Strasbourg and laid claim to 10 cities in Alsace.

"Recalling the decades of atrocious suffering and harsh persecutions against Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims, we can say that Albania was a land of martyrs: many bishops, priests, men and women religious, and laity paid for their fidelity with their lives," he said in his homily.

Traditional religious practices in Tibet have long been the target of especially harsh and unjust persecution.

Although he was considered one of the writers who depicted Soviet life most skillfully, he was regularly subjected to harsh criticism and persecution by Soviet censors.

She says the comfortable life of Americans in Mexico contrasts with the persecution and harsh immigration legislation Mexicans have to face in the US.

David Smolansky, an opposition mayor of a district in Caracas, said the country was passing through the harshest wave of political persecution in decades with the response to the protests and the jailing of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.

Persecution was especially harsh for Jewish scientists, who often faced anti-Semitism in addition to the refusenik stigma.