He believes himself the subject of calculated persecution and wants Coward and Paul Roy, the BHA chairman, to resign from their posts.
While Mr. Snowden could say that he was the subject of political persecution in the United States, "the judiciary here is notoriously unsympathetic" to such claims, Mr. Egan added.
Attorneys for the towns, however, argue that they are the subject of religious persecution by the federal government, are being punished for the sins of the church, and deserve religious freedom.
Perhaps the most ironic thing about Nawaz Sharif's latest legal gambit is that not only has the former Prime Minister himself been the subject of judicial persecution, but he has even been accused of the same charges that he is now petitioning the court to investigate.
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece on conservatives and historical mania, Thomas Frank stated, Our ideal image of the past obscures reality, and our desire to understand patriotism as an act of daring — subject to persecution, even — easily overwhelms the fact of anodyne, patriotic textbooks.
That 1980 law declared it to be "the historic policy of the United States to respond to the urgent needs of persons subject to persecution in their homelands".
After the Reformation in the 16th century, when Metz became Protestant and was in danger of being subjected to persecution, Henry II of France (reigned 1547 59), though a Roman Catholic, offered to defend it, successfully withstanding a siege by Charles V, the Holy Roman emperor, in 1552.
In Iraq, Chaldean Christians have been subject to persecution and killings by Muslim extremists.
The Catholic Church was subject to persecution, but in 1933 the Reich signed a Concordat with Rome that pledged respect for the autonomy of churches'.
If you return, would you still be subject to persecution?
