Sentence examples for target of persecution from inspiring English sources

Relativists were the target of persecution in Hitler's Germany, hounded in Stalin's Russia, and disdained in 1950s America.

Also on Sunday, two Yazidis — members of a religious minority group that has frequently been a target of persecution — were killed in a liquor store in eastern Mosul.

He maintained that Oviedo was the target of persecution and that the military tribunal that convicted him was illegal according to the constitution, as it had been conducted in time of peace.

Across the nation several thousand people, most of them Muslim, were killed in riots; a series of bombs exploded in Bombay (now Mumbai), orchestrated by a Dubai-based crime and terror mafia; and minorities (including Hindus in far-away Karachi) became the target of persecution.

As a result, Jews were often the target of persecution expulsion and murder.

As a result, he became a major target of persecution by the fervent Mao loyalist Wu Zhipu, the Second Secretary of Henan, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee.

Under the military junta they were prime targets of persecution, subjected to forced labour, their land confiscated.

Seven years after Nigerian independence, the prosperous Ibos, dominant in the eastern part of the country and targets of persecution and pogroms, declared their independence.

He even had the gall to portray himself as a defender of civil rights, saying that he refused "to allow America to become a place where gay people, Christian people, and Jewish people are the targets of persecution and intimidation by radical Islamic preachers of hate and violence".

"Human rights defenders and activists living in authoritarian regimes across the globe are under constant surveillance and many of them are targets of persecution and harassment," he said in a statement.

He has denied the charges and said he is the target of political persecution.