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But unlike other writers who were being persecuted at the time, Pilnyak declared himself ready to compromise.

The Department of State gives preference to the most vulnerable refugees, who have been tortured or persecuted at home.

Since his release two years ago, Mr. Ai has been obsessing over the details of his detention and the ordeals of several friends persecuted at the same time.

"To be given refugee status you have to prove that you have had an awful time, that you have been persecuted, at risk of torture or actually tortured.

If Ai is allowed to leave he would be the second prominent Chinese artist to move to Berlin after being persecuted at home.

Dikötter describes both persecutors and persecuted at the top echelons of the CCP as repugnant: in turn vindictive, bullying, treacherous and cowardly.

The former guard, Michael Gruber, 85, of New City, in Rockland County, persecuted civilians at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Justice Department charged.

They even persecuted me at night, all in the name of Socialism: a bright future, a better tomorrow, and all their other slogans.

By the time the chaos subsided 10 years later, an estimated 36 million had been persecuted and at least 750,000 were dead in the countryside alone.

But if there had not been the military crackdown, even if some people were persecuted afterwards, at least the form of mass protest would retain some legitimacy.

In the movie's funniest scene, she feigns wild, noisy sex with Brandon Dan Byrdd), a persecuted gay student, at a party at which the guests crowd around the door to listen to their faked S-and-M high jinks.