In Canada, as in many other Western countries, those who claim that they would be tortured or otherwise persecuted if sent home are given refugee status.
Human rights organisations said they had evidence that some asylum seekers whose cases were rejected were tortured or otherwise persecuted on return to the destination country.
Erdogan has employed a multidimensional effort to intimidate, silence and otherwise persecute every institution or individual remotely associated with Gulen.
In the more than three years since its birth, numerous activists linked (or in some cases, simply rumored to be linked) to the One Million Signatures Campaign, including Esha Momeni, a graduate student at the California State University - Northridge, have been arrested, detained, jailed, lashed and otherwise persecuted for their connection to the campaign.
Every year, countless girls and women, naïve otherwise, are persecuted as a consequence of having relationships with individuals of their own choice.
A premise of the argument is that only if the true church believed that it was the true church would it be in a position to persecute, otherwise it would give up its position and join, or at least seek, what it would take to be the true church.
First, 75% of them were bullied, persecuted, or otherwise threatened by others, and second, 61% were motivated by a desire for revenge.
Officials deny that they are persecuting him.
But persecuting all landlords helps no one.
"Why are they persecuting him?
