Sentence examples for persecution and abuse from inspiring English sources

In her view, all Hitler's atrocities could be explained by the brutal persecution and abuse he experienced as a child.

Despite her comparative isolation from post-Soviet political life, she never ceased to voice her criticism and condemnation of the persecution and abuse of the new regime's opponents.

However, students groups have argued that those studying have a right to do so in an environment where they are protected from persecution and abuse.

Chia said the government's power to return Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka – from where human rights organisations, the UN, and international media have consistently reported the persecution and abuse of returned asylum seekers – could be open to challenge.

Thailand forcibly returned 109 Uighurs to China in July, angering the community and causing an outcry from human rights groups and the United Nations who said they could face persecution and abuse.

In a campaign that seems to have accelerated since October, the groups say, ethnic Rohingya refugees who have been living for years in Bangladesh are being seized, beaten and forced back to Myanmar, which they had left to escape persecution and abuse and which does not want them.

But fleeing to their mothers' villages where they are above blame, condemnation, and rebuke shields them from any form of persecution, harm, and abuse.

But what drew the biggest sparks between the lawyers was the repeated accusation by Mr. Bugden that the proceedings were a smoke screen for religious persecution and the abuse of state police powers.

As a result of his courageous work investigating reports of forced abortions and sterilisations by local authorities in Linyi, China, Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-taught lawyer and human-rights activist, has endured a relentless campaign of harassment, persecution and physical abuse for the past six years.

It is a testament to the incredible vitality of queer spirituality that, despite centuries of both physical persecution and theological abuse, many queer people still have faith. .

Mr. Ruml also became a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted, a dissident organization, in 1978, monitoring Communist persecution and rights abuses.