Sentence examples for persecute on from inspiring English sources

In more recent history, Bill C-51 has threatened First Nations' ability to defend and support Aboriginal rights and title making it easier for authorities to persecute on the grounds that minorities are more likely to engage in "terrorist behaviour".

No one benefits from being tortured or persecuted on account of their religion or sexuality.

… People are persecuted on political and language grounds".

Mbaye is convinced that Abeid is being persecuted "on account of his campaigning".

"There isn't a 'mere likelihood' that these people will be persecuted on returning to Syria.

It follows that if they are accepted as constituting the only creed that everybody is obliged to profess, people cannot be persecuted on account of their beliefs.

All the circumstances lead to the conclusion that he will be persecuted on his return to Bahrain," said his solicitor Leqa al-Habib.

Therefore it is a responsibility of us as Muslims to make it very clear to the world that American Muslims are persecuted on a religious basis".

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.

Kiir, a rustic figure wearing a black cowboy hat, called for reconciliation, but also alluded to rebel groups that were still being persecuted on the Sudanese side of the border.

Just last weekend some 1,200 members of the Falun Gong sect, which has been heavily persecuted on the mainland, were allowed to hold a mass gathering in a concert hall owned by the Hong Kong government.