Sentence examples for persecution against from inspiring English sources

President Barroso, this is a targeted and selective persecution against a magazine that fights corruption.

But many fear the murder was the start of a campaign of violence and political persecution against the Tatars.

"This persecution against social activists, against human-rights defenders, against indigenous leaders, is happening all over Mexico".

Today Lieberman said in a statement: "For 13 years the police have conducted a campaign of persecution against me.

As a woman who had struggled against gender bias in her own clerical career, she was well-suited to taking on issues of religious persecution against women.

Many Jews who remained in Poland after the war hid their Judaism during decades of Communist oppression in which persecution against Jews persisted.

Mr Mugabe's remarks follow decades of state-sanction persecution against homosexuality, with male same-sex sexual activity remaining illegal within Zimbabwe.

Mr. Ivashchenko has denied the charges, accusing the Ukrainian authorities of pursuing a campaign of persecution against the opponents of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.

They were created between 529 and 577, while the scattered coins date from the Song Dynasty in the early 12th century, a time of persecution against Buddhists.

With a few notable exceptions such as South Africa, most African countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe had some form of legal persecution against homosexuals.

"State policies of persecution [against the Rohingya]... are continuing," says Matthew Smith, director of human rights group Fortify Rights.