In other words, "Persecution of minorities reduces not only the long-term wealth of the persecuted, but of the persecutors as well".* "Distrust in finance lingers: Jewish persecution and households' investments" by Francesco D'Acunto, Marcel Prokopczuk and Michael Weber.
He said: "It's outrageous that students exercising their traditional democratic right to protest have been persecuted in this way".
Foreign diplomats were converging on Burma on Thursday, seeking to discuss the Asian migrant crisis which is widely believed to have its roots in the mass fleeing of the country's persecuted Rohingya minority.
Accepting the term means "you're persecuted as a national traitor", said Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos Association, the only independent election watchdog in Russia, which was the first NGO added to the list of foreign agents in 2013.
The Google homepage picture, 124 years after his birth, pays tribute to a figure who was credited with fighting for a free India and for the rights of persecuted classes within the state, including the dalits or "untouchables".
The initiative is about keeping the stories of unjustly persecuted people alive, giving moral support, he added.
Amid improvements, one notable exception is the Baha'i faith, which is still banned and its followers persecuted and even imprisoned.
On the eve of his visit, Catholics across Bosnia dropped on their knees at an agreed time on Friday evening during candlelit vigils to pray for all those around the world persecuted for their faith.
According to the RSPB, the last two breeding pairs of hen harriers in England failed this year to produce eggs for the first time in 60 years and are now on the point of extinction because gamekeepers working for rogue moorland estate owners have systematically persecuted the bird to protect baby grouse which live on the moors.
In 2013, an MP said students were being persecuted for protesting and criticised heavy-handed policing.
Numerous reports since Friday documenting the existence of both boats – one of which departed from Tamil Nadu, southern India – have suggested that those on board are being transported to Sri Lanka with the co-operation of the Sri Lankan navy, an action the Australian Greens leader, Christine Milne, described as "sending the persecuted back to the persecutors".
