Persecution
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The European Union, the United States, and the world’s other democracies have the capacity to raise the issue of religious persecution; what they lack is the will.
In 1979, he was sentenced to a five-year prison term for his activities in the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted, an offshoot of Charter 77 that monitored human-rights abuses and
persecution
in Czechoslovakia.
But China’s leaders should expect nothing else so long as they maintain a system where lawyers face
persecution
when they advocate for the weakest groups in its society.
Of course, there are places where any sign of celebrating Christmas would trigger immediate
persecution.
Indeed, the eight years I spent in England as a child made me a lifelong Anglophile, not to mention a proponent of kindness and magnanimity for those fleeing
persecution.
Only since he began to feel pressure from the British public – who have been deeply affected by images of those fleeing persecution, especially the photo of the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian boy, washed up on a beach – has Cameron’s stance begun to change.
Add to this responsibility the moral imperative and legal obligation to help those fleeing violence and persecution, and it is clear that the US should not only offer vastly increased assistance to the countries accommodating large numbers of refugees, but also accept larger numbers of refugees itself.
Originally defined as those who leave their countries because of fear of persecution, refugees now also include those forced to cross borders because of conflict and violence.
These “displaced persons,” as they were called at the time, were forced to flee their homes because of violence, forced relocation, persecution, and destruction of property and infrastructure.
To be clear: failing to work towards peace in Syria is just as grave an error as turning away those fleeing from
persecution.
For decades, most Arabs, however unhappy, kept their political grievances private, for fear of
persecution
if they turned against their leaders publicly.
It offers no discussion of the lethal policies since 1949 that led to the
persecution
and starvation of tens of millions of Chinese.
Argentina’s military regime, after all, framed its “dirty war” as an offensive against so-called “terrorists,” rather than as what it was: wanton, arbitrary
persecution
of citizens with diverse ideologies and class backgrounds.
But consider this: Amnesty International and the US State Department have three basic indicators of human rights — the right to life, the right to physical safety, and the right to freedom from political
persecution.
Haffner, later a journalist and author, was a law student who witnessed how the Nazi dictatorship became lethal, again incrementally, like the
persecution
of Jews in Italy.
Many of Burma’s ethnic minorities – whose members comprise almost 40% of the population – have long been subjected to
persecution
and mistreatment.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and
persecution
of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
The Rome Statute defines murder or
persecution
that is knowingly “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population” as a crime against humanity.
Alongside economic motives for migration there has always been another: ethnic, religious, and political
persecution.
In recent years, refugees have mainly been fleeing either
persecution
or extreme insecurity following state disintegration.
Moreover,
persecution
of political dissenters does not now reach far beyond the accused to involve their associates.
Despite this ongoing persecution, Liu continued to write and petition the government on behalf of the people of China.
According to the International Society for Human Rights, 80% of all acts of religious
persecution
worldwide in 2012 were directed at Christians.
Although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the drivers of displacement, data from the United Nations refugee agency show that at least half of those trying to reach Europe from North Africa are fleeing from war and
persecution.
The international community is legally bound to protect those who are being forced to flee their homes by conflict and
persecution.
The goal of the asylum-seekers is not to reach Europe; it is simply to escape conflict and
persecution.
Last century – in both world wars – Europeans were the ones fleeing from
persecution.
Thus, it merely feeds young Muslims’ fears that they are being singled out for
persecution.
With an unprecedented number of people uprooted by political instability, conflict, or
persecution
and forced to seek protection beyond their countries’ borders, the inadequacy of international responses has been laid bare.
The police
persecution
of the animal movement appears to be an attempt by the conservative party, which controls the Ministry of the Interior, and its animal industry supporters to strike back at a legitimate, peaceful challenge to the way we treat animals.
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