"We don't need to vilify or persecute any minority," he says.
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With a Spanish state that continues to harass and persecute us?
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Not to persecute the people who were involved with the failure.
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"fascist junta" determined to persecute Russian-speakers in Ukraine and stamp
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You cannot persecute the press for asking questions about the truth.
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"[Maduro's regime] fabricates evidence to persecute leaders, the people," he added.
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When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute.
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The people who persecute us — they're the ones who have to worry.
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It's time for the court to declare unequivocally that Washington cannot persecute Barronelle.
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Lula's lawyer said the law was being misused to persecute the former president.
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Also, governments are not the only entities that persecute religious minorities, Konyndyk said.
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The state is now using the laws pre-legalization to prosecute and persecute me.
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Online platforms offer bullies ever more creative ways to persecute victims outside school hours.
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Some furries call it "fursecution," believing they make easy targets for others to persecute.
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It's because they think that Hong Kong uses the judiciary to persecute Hong Kong people.
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Manipulated laws Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws have often been manipulated to persecute minorities, including Christians.
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Will others in the camp resent what Christians do arrive, and persecute them even more?
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He also pledged to cut aid to countries that persecute gay people, including Saudi Arabia.
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Central American immigrants have faced major obstacles when declaring asylum from countries that persecute them.
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But we still persecute people simply for who they are — or who we think they are.
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A group of Muslim clerics in Pakistan recently declared that it was haram to persecute them.
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Judges in Saudi Arabia have broad power to persecute adultery, and sentence those convicted to death.
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There are many gays they persecute if they do not line up with their social ideology.
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What I've learned from working on "Moonlight" is, we see what happens when you persecute people.
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Most troubling, AI is being used in Xinjiang, a province in Western China, to persecute Muslims.
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" Prostrate and blinded, he heard a disembodied voice ask, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?
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She denies wrongdoing and accuses Argentina's current leader, Mauricio Macri, of using the courts to persecute her.
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See how the idiots persecute us, the rational, with their superstition and their hostility to objective thought.
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We could be united, but they're trying to persecute us for something that obviously isn't the problem.
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"The Honduran armed forces absolutely do not persecute anybody," said Captain Jose Domingo Mesa, a military spokesman.
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Fernandez denies wrongdoing and accuses her arch rival Macri of using the justice system to persecute her.
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This anti-Semitic trope has been used to persecute Jews for centuries & it's unacceptable to promote it.
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"Non-democratic societies often restrict the flow of information and persecute perceived critics," The Economist piece noted.
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Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and have since been criticized internationally for being misused to persecute religious minorities.
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The government began to persecute your wife, Liu Xia, as a way to put pressure on you.
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And panics, for their part, don't always have to transform into official moves to persecute and banish scapegoats.
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" It says, "The thing that made you persecute us is the thing that's going to make us stronger.
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And panics, for their part, don't always have to transform into official moves to persecute and banish scapegoats.
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Without independence, it also risks becoming a tool of those in power, to persecute opponents or disfavored groups.
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"We're talking about small politicians who are trying to persecute the Arab minority in the country," he said.
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Most recently, Kadyrov has been accused of carrying out a plan to systematically persecute and torture gay Chechens.
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"The Hungarian government has decided to persecute instead of to provide protection against persecution," co-chair Marta Pardavi said.
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All of this has made it significantly easier to persecute an entire group of people with little international attention.
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I don't really need to know why they're there, who they are or why they want to persecute me.
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As a Mormon he learned to be wary of the government, and especially the way it can persecute minorities.
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"I think what I've learned from working on Moonlight is we see what happens when you persecute people," he said.
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The central government will try to rig the selection of his successor, and no doubt persecute Tibetans who publicly object.
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There's a difference between being Christ-like and using Christ's name to oppress others, to silence women and persecute immigrants.
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Opponents fear the law would compromise the city's judicial independence and could be abused by Beijing to persecute political dissidents.
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"Indonesians, before so many outside religious influences, did not view transgenders as unnatural or persecute those who were transgender," Tamara said.
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Adolf Hitler, the German Führer, had already dissolved the country's democracy, built up its army and started to persecute its Jews.
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Even the women who persecute other women on this show are signal flares for a community not yet realized but understood.
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The actor couldn't help but throw shade at the ordeal, laughing at the extent the Australian government went to persecute them.
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An agent of an autocratic government might be looking to persecute journalists or human rights workers who use iPhones to communicate.
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Community organizations and media are focusing on keeping people informed of their options and the government's ability to persecute undocumented immigrants.
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Boudou and De Vido deny wrongdoing and Fernandez's party has accused Macri of using the judicial system to persecute political opponents.
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"To evoke a future where algorithmic inscrutability and bias could persecute people, Johnson turns to the British sketch programme "Little Britain.
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Is the rage that accompanies negative polarization consistent with commands to love even our enemies and bless those who persecute us?
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Not only was there no talk of transformation in these cases, but also no attempt by Muslims to persecute these converts.
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What the White House is asking for is the chance to persecute some immigrants in exchange for pledging to protect others.
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The injustice of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, used frequently to persecute religious minorities, has been criticized by human rights advocates for decades.
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And a winning party that fears the other party will resist giving up power has every reason to persecute the losers.
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"History provides ugly examples of misuse of traditional identification programs, including to track or persecute ethnic or religious groups," the authors wrote.
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Her high-profile case had thrown a global spotlight on concerns that the blasphemy law was being misused to persecute religious minorities.
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The Taliban, who remain Afghanistan's main armed opposition group, tend to view Shias as apostates, but they do not systematically persecute them.
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"Conspiracy was the crime that was created by de facto governments and used by all the dictatorships to persecute opposition leaders," Mrs.
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If the probe was really a "witch hunt," he would have found a way to persecute the President whatever the facts said.
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No evidence has come to light to substantiate allegations that the FBI's investigations were politicized to either protect Clinton or persecute Trump.
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A clear message must now go out that the blasphemy laws will no longer be used to persecute Pakistan's long-suffering religious minorities.
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The goal was to identify these workers throughout the public service, including the foreign service, the military, and the RCMP, and persecute them.
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Fraser's main explanation is Cold War anti-communism, which gave conservatives the chance to press radicals to the margins or persecute them outright.
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But this time, a new drug had emerged to capture America's fevered imagination, with a fresh racial minority to use it to persecute.
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Critics say the new legislation could allow Mr. Orban's government to further erode democratic institutions and persecute journalists and members of the opposition.
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Almost every cult leader thinks he's above the law, which is why he's allowed to persecute and harass or harm anyone he wants.
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Ugandan politicians argue that they don't persecute us, but people get arrested every day, by police officers who are paid to protect them.
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"I think what I've learned from working on Moonlight is we see what happens when you persecute people: they fold into themselves," he began.
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He also colluded with the city's mayor to persecute and attack the students and ordered local police to stop them from attending the protest.
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Those forced aggressive race-based preferences ran roughshod over student and faculty civil rights, and empowered self-righteous liberal administrators to persecute conservative scholars.
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"That same state of Honduras took measures to persecute Bertha Cáceres for her struggle against foreign companies that destroy natural resources," the group said.
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While this is supposedly meant to protect sensitive information, it can also make it easier for the government to track and persecute Internet users.
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The women can't give them this when there are laws that persecute and harm them and when new laws to protect them are vetoed.
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They also suggest that a presidentially appointed Commission chair would be tantamount to an "election czar," with vast power to persecute the president's opponents.
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" Mr. Waraich added, "The message must go out that the blasphemy laws will no longer be used to persecute the country's most vulnerable minorities.
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In practice, he says, they were often exploited via blackmail scams, or used to persecute black men involved in consensual relationships with white women.
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During that era, the bureau too often used arbitrary and retroactive standards to persecute businesses it disliked and interfere with politically disfavored business practices.
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This Inquisitor, I learned through my research, was a Christian and then as a high-ranking government official he came to persecute the Christians.
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"I think what I have learned from working on Moonlight, you see what happens when you persecute people, and they fold into themselves," he said.
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In the name of everyone, of those who persecute you, those who hurt you, and especially of the world's indifference, I ask for your forgiveness.
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It happened in 1938, after Benito Mussolini, in a tragic attempt to ape Adolf Hitler, passed the so-called "racial laws" to persecute Italian Jews.
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" That evening, her father, Yefim Englin, was arrested under Article 58 of the criminal code, which was often used to persecute "enemies of the state.
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On Thursday, she threatened to persecute journalists who are "involved in sedition," adding that she already has a list of troublesome members of the media.
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A coalition of prominent nongovernment organizations, meanwhile, issued a joint statement accusing the Saudi government of continuing to persecute dissidents, activists, journalists and independent clerics.
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When shown in a relationship, the characters delighted in collecting flags marked "Injustice," because they could then persecute their partners with more evidence of victimhood.
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Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's autocratic president, has also decided that Mr Trump is an American leader who will let him persecute his enemies without hindrance.
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But to return to the questions implied by those alarming headlines about Kosinski and Wang's paper: is AI going to be used to persecute sexual minorities?
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Rights groups and Western governments allege that authorities in Chechnya repress their political opponents, discriminate against women and persecute gays, all allegations that Chechnya's leaders deny.
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As for the risk of oppression, the Windrush affair shows that it is not just all-knowing states that have the power to persecute their citizens.
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Some are calling for the abolition of a law forbidding "sexual intercourse contrary to the order of nature", which is often used to persecute gay men.
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Unless they can be convinced that their state will protect and not persecute them, an Islamic State 2.0 will find plenty of new recruits and supporters.
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Rights groups and Western governments allege that authorities in Chechnya repress their political opponents, discriminate against women and persecute sexual minorities, all allegations that Chechnya's leaders deny.
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The government wants to shave off the Hairies' hair, reduce their strength, and turn them into copies of the "superior" humans who hate, persecute, and abuse them.
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We want to know how their youth shaped their current beliefs about equality, justice, and the way government at all levels can liberate people or persecute them.
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With sanctions lifted, the Burmese military quickly acted to expel, persecute, or kill their country's ethnic and religious minorities, the most hated of which were the Rohingya.
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Critics and rights groups say the blasphemy laws are used to persecute religious minorities, especially the Ahmadis, who are considered non-Muslims, according to the country's Constitution.
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And right-wing politicians harass and persecute actual researchers whose conclusions they don't like — an effort that has been vastly empowered now that Trump is in power.
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Simply, the Al Sauds may tell their people that the reason for their hardship is because they "stood up" to US attempts to persecute Saudi with JASTA.
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Their hopes of an easier life rose briefly in December when President Vladimir Putin said it was "nonsense" to persecute them because they were Christians of a sort.
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But the country's 2013 law criminalizing "gay propaganda," which the government similarly argued was narrowly targeted to protect children, has since been used to broadly persecute LGBT Russians.
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He doesn't have to actively persecute minorities in his country, but he's a representative for large, greedy corporations that endanger the whole planet in their search for profit.
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He turned the judiciary into a pro-regime puppet, which gave him a tool to persecute political opponents but left judges dependent and the rule of law weak.
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But when Wilde went to France, where it wasn't a crime to be gay, he was a man fleeing unjust laws that could be used to persecute him.
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They demanded that Lula be freed while his appeals process is underway and condemned the use of the fight against corruption as a tool to persecute opposition politicians.
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A losing party whose members fear the other party will persecute them if they lose and go into opposition has every reason to resist giving up power peacefully.
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And God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.
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And indeed, Bible-induced fear of the so-called "Devil's magic" is what led the Puritans in New England's early colonies to persecute women they believed to be witches.
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Not long after she empowered a religious sect, the Sparrows, in order to persecute Margaery, she herself was locked up for once seducing her twit of a cousin, Lancel.
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"If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was wrong, too," Hefner wrote to outraged readers, according to the LBGT magazine the Advocate.
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In obsessing over micro-aggressions like the sin of uttering the commonplace Americanism "you guys" to mean "you all," activists persecute fellow travelers who already care about equal rights.
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Editorial Interpol, the international law enforcement agency, has had a history of allowing its international database of fugitives to be used by authoritarian governments to persecute dissidents and critics.
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Valentina Matvienko, speaker of Russia's upper house, has accused America of launching a "government propaganda machine" that has "begun to persecute Russian media," according to Russian news agency Interfax.
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Amid accusations of an anti-gay pogrom in 2017, he said it would be impossible for the police to persecute gay people because there were none in his region.
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I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech.
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Mr. Taseer, a secular politician, was an outspoken opponent of the blasphemy law, which he and other critics said had been used to persecute religious minorities in Muslim-majority Pakistan.
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But it complained that a similar status ought to be conferred on Russia, where a broadly worded law on "extremism" is used to persecute Jehovah's Witnesses and certain Muslim groups.
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"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today once again demonstrated he will go to any length necessary to solidify his power and persecute his critics," Gülen said in a written statement.
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Such groups typically sought to clear the ground to persecute minorities and consolidate power by "cultural cleansing", removing traces of other cultures, she told Reuters in an interview in Kabul.
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A series of homophobic statements by prominent politicians, religious leaders and the mass media have provided "social sanction" for Islamist hardliners to persecute LGBT people, according to the HRW report.
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"The CCTV project is just a tool to track us, hunt us and persecute us," said Ingrid Turinawe, a leader in the Forum for Democratic Change, Uganda's largest opposition party.
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And the Obama White House was fine with using the IRS to persecute "political undesirables," or imprisoning a filmmaker when a patsy was needed to cover for the Benghazi scandal.
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"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today once again demonstrated he will go to any length necessary to solidify his power and persecute his critics," Mr. Gulen said in a statement.
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" Erick Erickson, an evangelical blogger, said that Mr. Buttigieg's comments about religious conservatives who support Mr. Trump suggest that he "would be O.K. with using the government to persecute Christians.
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"This clearly unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech has been used by the Internal Revenue Service to harass, intimidate and persecute the faith community for over six decades," he wrote.
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We use public and private diplomacy to raise human rights concerns, provide emergency assistance to people at risk, and impose visa restrictions and economic sanctions against those who persecute them.
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Western countries have expressed concerns that the government of the South Caucasus country of 3.7 million people has used selective justice to persecute political opponents, an allegation that officials deny.
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Western countries have expressed concerns that the government of the former Soviet republic of 3.7 million people has used selective justice to persecute political opponents, an allegation that officials deny.
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Don't be fooled -- he promised again and again during his campaign that he would single out and persecute a specific religious group, and that's exactly what he's trying to do now.
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The public's right to know what governments do in our name is being overridden by public servants seeking to cover up a scandal in order to persecute and prosecute a whistleblower.
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"But I really want to ask [people] not to persecute them, I am sure that it is very hard for them now," Savchenko wrote, according to the New York Post's translation.
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"I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech," she said.
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Last year the CAC introduced rules to force Chinese social media outlets to make users submit their real names, potentially giving authorities more power to track down and persecute online dissenters.
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If he is confirmed as Attorney General during his Senate hearing Tuesday, will Sessions try to use the FBI or the Department of Justice to once again persecute voting rights activists?
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But the Interpol membership of nations — like Russia, Iran and Zimbabwe — that routinely use their justice systems to persecute political foes has stirred worries that wanted notices can be easily misused.
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Recently, claims have also been recognized from gay and transgender people in countries that persecute them and female victims of domestic violence in places where the government refuses to protect them.
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Kirchner, who is a member of the Senate, vehemently denied any wrongdoing and accused the administration of President Mauricio Macri, a longtime political nemesis, of using the courts to persecute her.
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Perhaps, but given the checkered history of quarantines — throughout history, they have been used to persecute the marginalized — lawmakers and the media should rigorously examine the bases for any such restrictions.
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She plays Marina, a trans woman mourning the death of her older lover in Santiago -- a process complicated by the deceased's ex-wife and children, who are out to persecute her.
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Years earlier, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago famously observed that he expected one of his successors to die in prison — the idea being that the state will eventually persecute the church.
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He rolled his troops into Eastern Ukraine to create a space into which he could pump unfiltered propaganda, namely that the Kyiv government was a fascist junta out to persecute ethnic Russians.
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To be clear, hate speech is a socially constructed concept that changes over time—especially as those who intend to persecute or diminish certain groups find more creative ways of doing it.
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A former employee described her exhausting experience trying to accuse and persecute Weinstein for allegedly assaulting her assistant, a twisted ordeal that ended in a payoff from Bob Weinstein's personal bank account.
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The first U.N. report on human rights in both Indian-administered and Pakistan-administered Kashmir urged Pakistan to end its "misuse" of anti-terror legislation to persecute peaceful activists and quash dissent.
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"Recently, the Taiwan authorities have shielded and connived with Taiwan independent splittists, and taken various moves to wantonly crack down on and persecute forces and people who uphold peaceful reunification," it said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British billionaire Richard Branson urged fellow business leaders on Thursday to use their clout and put pressure on countries such as Brunei that persecute citizens for their sexuality.
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She was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010, a verdict that drew worldwide condemnation and focused attention on Pakistan's blasphemy law, which critics say has been used to persecute religious minorities.
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We cannot persecute people for what they believe, no matter how much it disgusts us, and simultaneously maintain a free and open democracy … If diversity is our dogma, call me "spiritual, not religious".
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As was the case with other territorial conquests of Judeo-Christian/Western colonization, countries like China, Japan, and Korea once had societies that, if not outright accepting of homosexual relationships, didn't persecute them.
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" The Republican added that "there are so many other ways that law enforcement can be put to good use rather than to persecute harmless farmers and shopkeepers who are abiding by state law.
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I admire, and greatly respect, all those of you who find it in your hearts to pray for those who persecute you and, following the example of Christ, seek forgiveness for your enemies.
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Some analysts say the fact that the new unit's management will be appointed by parliament means it might not be truly independent and could be used by those in power to persecute opponents.
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It has also said that if the women appeared in court and testified that they abandoned North Korea of their own accord, that would prompt the North to persecute their relatives in retaliation.
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Under the new regulations, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have greater leeway in deciding which immigrants to persecute for deportation, as definitions of criminality for aliens were expanded by Trump's executive order.
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BVA said Le Pen had likely lost support because of comments at a rally in Nantes last week in which she appeared to threaten to punish government employees who would "persecute" political opponents.
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"Don't be fooled — he promised again and again during his campaign that he would single out and persecute a specific religious group, and that's exactly what he's trying to do now," he said.
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But to push that logic into this terrain would not only give the president carte blanche to persecute his enemies but essentially vitiate the idea that there are any enforceable laws at all.
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In the meantime, reports say, the mere passing of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 gave citizens permission to persecute Uganda's LGBTQ people with impunity and unleashed a culture of violent homophobia.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani Hindu man has been charged with blasphemy against Islam, in the latest case under a controversial law that critics say has been used to persecute and marginalize religious minorities.
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"To ensure lasting change, the repressive legal framework used to persecute and imprison peaceful activists and religious believers on ill-defined charges of extremism for so many years should be changed for good."
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"The gay left hates and wants to persecute orthodox Christians, however much good they do," the conservative gay writer Andrew Sullivan tweeted after Out magazine slammed Buttigieg for working with the Salvation Army.
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In some countries, such as Egypt, where homosexuality is not an explicit offence, vaguely worded "morality" laws are nevertheless widely used to persecute those who are accused of "promoting sexual deviancy" and the like.
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"I will not participate in a secret process that I morally object to, particularly one that has been historically used to entrap and persecute activists for protected political speech," she said in a statement.
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How is it that the media lets Clinton claim she is a champion of LGBT and women's rights when she accepted boatloads of cash from foreign regimes that persecute and execute those very people?
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They include the EU's worry that Turkey's anti-terror laws are too broad and used to persecute Erdogan critics, as demonstrated in Ankara's sweeping security crackdown following a botched coup almost a year ago.
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Around a quarter of Latvia's population of two million speaks Russian and gets most of its information from Russian media outlets, which regularly feature reports claiming that ethnic Latvians persecute their Russian-speaking compatriots.
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Colombian President Ivan Duque has promised to persecute the rebel group, whose leaders said they were returning to armed struggle because Duque had betrayed the 2016 peace accord that lead to the FARC's demobilization.
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"It seemed excessive to persecute a man in such fashion," he concedes after slashing the cheek of a hated colleague, the victim's inferior rank insuring that he, not Zama, is banished as a result.
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"What I've learned from working on 'Moonlight' is, we see what happens when you persecute people," Mr. Ali said, referring to the story of a gay black boy growing up in poverty in Miami.
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This flawed research could be taken out of context and support efforts to identify or persecute people believed to be gay, which is criminalised in at least 22 countries and punishable by death in eight.
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As an attorney in Alabama, Sessions went on a witch hunt to persecute civil servants who were registering voters in historically Black counties under allegations of voter fraud that were quickly rejected by a jury.
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A state could surreptitiously collect DNA in order to persecute LGBTQ+ people, similar to how China has used genetic information to identify and imprison more than a million Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim minority in China.
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They claim that those of us, both straight and gay, who are working to protect the equal rights for millions of LGBTQ Americans across this country are out to persecute them for their religious beliefs.
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The bank, joined by the Canadian government, contended that if Canadian courts can force the international organization to hand over documents, there is a risk other countries would do so as well to persecute tipsters.
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"They got together to maximize efforts to persecute political opponents of each of the dictatorships, and to 'disappear' or eliminate those who were considered subversive," she told reporters after the ruling was read out in court.
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But there's nothing in the Strzok-Page texts to suggest some kind of institutional bias against Trump in the FBI, nor is there any evidence that Strzok actually abused his position of influence to persecute Trump.
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Since an attempted coup in 2016 up until 2018, for example, Turkey was under a state of emergency which enabled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to jail and persecute academics, government officials, media and human rights advocates.
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The President perceives a marauding special counsel, an FBI plot to persecute him and a conspiracy within his own government to unfairly pry deep into his personal confidences held by a cherished confidant and personal attorney.
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At one point, it seemed worryingly possible that a Trump administration Justice Department could be very different — that it could be essentially remade to serve the personal whims and persecute the political opponents of Donald Trump.
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What #MeToo is a social movement that finally holds powerful men accountable for their actions; as author David Perry writes, #MeToo is not an act of persecution, but rather a rebellion against the powers that persecute.
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Gay rights groups say the laws promote homophobia across the continent and are used daily to persecute and discriminate against sexual minorities who face prejudice in getting jobs, renting housing or seeking medical care or education.
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Jesus teaches us in Romans 13:8 to love everyone, even our enemies, in Matthew 5:44 to pray for people who persecute you, and in 1 Timothy 2:2 to pray for our governmental leaders.
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In a joint statement, LGBT advocacy groups Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD condemned the work, writing that the researchers had built a tool based on "junk science" that governments could use to identify and persecute gay people.
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Ali won Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for Moonlight, then launched into an emotional plea: What I've learned from working on Moonlight is, uh, we see what happens when we persecute people.
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"I don't believe the Moise regime really wants to reinstate the army, but instead set up a political militia to persecute political opponents," said Andre Michel, spokesman for an opposition coalition that has called for Moise's resignation.
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It urged Pakistan to remove curbs on political rights and end what it called its misuse of antiterrorism legislation to persecute political dissidents, citing reports that the authorities had imprisoned hundreds of people and targeted local activists.
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Ms. Bibi, a mother of five in her early 50s, has been a central figure in the debate over Pakistan's harsh blasphemy laws, which critics say are often used to persecute and intimidate members of religious minorities.
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As China seeks to interfere in Hong Kong's sovereignty, Christians there fear what this could mean for their religious freedom, given China's human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims and the government's effort to viciously persecute unsanctioned churches.
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These include the walk of shame and her explosive coup d'état last season, in which her rivals assembled inside the Great Sept, expecting to persecute Cersei, only to be incinerated when she blew up the church instead.
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While Reconstruction-era Republicans like Grant and Blaine also favored robust public education, Southern Democrats like those in Missouri saw an opportunity to persecute those drunken immigrant Catholics and Lutherans and restrict the growth of public expenditures.
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The Romans mainly left the Christians alone until Nero (the emperor between 54 and 68 A.D.) began to persecute them in Rome; Tacitus suggests that Nero used them as scapegoats for the great fire of Rome, in 64.
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Mr. Taseer was a crusading secular politician and governor of Punjab Province at the time of his assassination, campaigning for changes in the blasphemy laws, which he, like other critics, said had been used to persecute religious minorities.
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Radev said the new five-person unit, meant to investigate persons occupying high state posts as well as assets and conflict of interest, may not be truly independent and could be used by those in power to persecute opponents.
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Such divisions are easier to aggravate because of the wider struggle between the kingdom and Iran, with many Saudis, and their government, seeing Tehran as using ties with Shi'ites across the Middle East to seek dominance and persecute Sunnis.
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Madrid's will to quash self-government, to reject dialogue, to limit rights and freedoms, to persecute the representatives of the citizens, to impose the state's brute force, forces us to persevere and to become stronger in order to prevail.
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By the same token, Dershowitz insists he's not defending Trump because he's suddenly become a right-winger — he's doing so because as a longtime progressive civil libertarian he's concerned about prosecutorial overreach and the FBI running amok to persecute an enemy.
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The anonymous source emphasized that the local Hui Muslim community in Yunnan believes that the government is trying to use groundless accusations to persecute the community, and the tactics used in Xinjiang are likely to be carried over to Yunnan.
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The US Commission on International Religious Freedom's 2016 report claims that numerous countries, including China, Burma, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, among others, continue to imprison, torture and persecute religious minority communities, including Jews, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, and Buddhists.
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PARIS (Reuters) - An apparent threat by far-right leader Marine le Pen to punish state employees who "persecute" political opponents may have eroded her support, according to a poll which found her first-round lead in France's presidential election slipping.
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We are all called, year over year, decade upon decade, to examine ourselves, both individually and collectively, to ensure America is a place that gives "bigotry no sanction," and which refuses to persecute others because of their station in life.
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Despite the fact that he has been unable to secure funding for his notorious wall on the Mexican border, Trump has taken full advantage of the various tools at his disposal to persecute the undocumented community in the United States.
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The family had barely turned a corner when, in December 2013, the Supreme Court overturned the previous ruling on Section 377 on the ground that the law criminalizes acts against the order of nature, but does not persecute specific groups.
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"There is a direct collaboration between ECU-911, the Intelligence Secretariat and also those who surveil and persecute political or social actors," said Mr. Pazmiño, citing his own experience, as well as documents and people who had worked in Senain.
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Both persecute homosexuality: While the Russian leader has introduced anti-gay legislation, the Chechen has denied the very existence of gays in his republic — although reports recently emerged that Chechnya's security agents were systematically torturing gay men in secret prisons.
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A judge ordered the workers' release two days later, according to the BBC, and the arrests were widely seen as a move by a right-wing president to persecute environmentalists and deflect blame from his own administration for the fires.
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Many students and activists now try to not identify themselves too openly, which is why online petitions have since become the predominant method of advocating for change — a long list of names is a harder target to persecute than a single person.
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"While there have been some positive reforms in Bahrain, they are dwarfed by a pattern of torturing prisoners and by recent government actions to silence opposition political leaders, to persecute human rights defenders, and to revoke the citizenship of a leading cleric," Sen.
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And what about countries that execute civilians without trial, treat women as the property and persecute homosexuals and religious minorities, yet sit in the General Assembly or on the Human Rights Committee, where they shamelessly condemn other countries for far lesser infractions?
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On April 29, 2013, a Monday, Barber led a group of some seventy-five people, including members of the Historic Thousands coalition, to the state legislature, to protest what Barber has said was the legislature's attempt to persecute minorities and the disadvantaged.
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Meanwhile, spurred by a Department of Justice report that shamed city officials for policies that persecute poor African American residents, Ferguson began curtailing predatory fees and fines and systemic, racial discrimination, slashing "driving while black" fines and hiring a diverse police department.
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But revelations of how Kushner's JK2 Westminster misuses its legal resources not only to prosecute but also to cruelly persecute former tenants (even those who have done nothing wrong but have difficulty navigating the legal system to prove it) make me wonder.
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Her contribution, however, is not popular, either with Jamal's tough-minded wife, Dorothy (Zazie Beetz), who calls the actress "a tourist," or at the Bureau, where, under the baneful aegis of J. Edgar Hoover , the decision has been made to persecute Seberg.
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He doesn't staff his administration with inept sycophants or sell America out to the Russians or unleash an unprecedented wave of race riots and pogroms or abuse power to persecute his enemies or steal taxpayer money or undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law.
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As Ashland Johnson, the Human Rights Campaign's director of public education and research, put it: Imagine for a moment the potential consequences if this flawed research were used to support a brutal regime's efforts to identify and/or persecute people they believed to be gay.
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"We can be certain that if we build a backdoor for the U.S. government, other governments, including repressive and authoritarian regimes around the world, will demand access or try to gain it clandestinely, including to persecute dissidents, journalists, and their political opponents," his statement read.
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FROM PEN: Learn The Process Behind Time Selecting The 100 Most Influential People Probably they don't know that their firm is representing a regime that is consistently at the top of the list of governments that persecute Christians and deny basic freedoms of speech and assembly.
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Turkey has also used the conflict as an excuse to persecute the Kurds.) Officials in Turkey and Russia have both condemned the assassination and both have blamed the usual suspects: the Gulenists in Turkey (who allegedly attempted a coup this summer) and the West in Russia, respectively.
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Mr. Taseer had campaigned for changes in the country's blasphemy laws, saying they were used to persecute religious minorities, but to many in Pakistan, the idea of altering the country's blasphemy laws is itself criminal, and Mr. Qadri has become a revered figure to his supporters.
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And it is shameful that the United States should be mentioned in the same breath as so many other relentless governments around the world that today persecute minorities and immigrants and turn their backs on refugees like we once were when our family wandered the earth.
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The not-so-hidden message is that the Muslim-majority countries abutting India persecute Hindus and other minorities, and that Muslims from such countries cannot be refugees — even people like the Rohingya, some of whom have reached India after fleeing to Bangladesh from brutal repression in Myanmar.
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The tribe has refused to pay the fines or apply for the permits that the town says are required, and instead has concentrated its energy on a lawsuit it filed last year, contending that Mahwah and the club are using zoning rules and fines to persecute it.
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US State Police Have Spent Millions on Israeli Phone Cracking Tech (by Joseph Cox) Israeli technology firm Cellebrite has gained notoriety in recent years for its phone-cracking software, which is used by law enforcement agencies and governments around the world, including by repressive regimes to persecute activists and dissidents.
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In his SAG acceptance speech, which came on the heels of President Trump's controversial immigration ban, Ali gave rare insight into his personal life as he delivered a powerful critique of religious persecution: "What I think I learned from working on Moonlight is you see what happens when you persecute people," he said.
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" Aimee Bender on her short story "The End of the Line": "I'm the youngest of three, and so I didn't have a little sibling to persecute and adore in the way that older siblings, I think, can do, and so I think I was always obsessed because of that in the little people idea.
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As callous as it may sound, the fact is asylum seekers fleeing starvation in a locust-ravaged country aren't going to be able to establish that swarms of locusts are ravaging their crops and pastures to persecute them on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinions.
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"The not-so-hidden message [in the new law] is that the Muslim-majority countries abutting India persecute Hindus and other minorities, and that Muslims from such countries cannot be refugees — even people like the Rohingya, some of whom have reached India after fleeing to Bangladesh from brutal repression in Myanmar," the article said.
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"In a matter of days the Egyptian security forces have rounded up dozens of people and carried out five anal examinations signaling a sharp escalation in the authorities' efforts to persecute and intimidate members of the LGBTI community following the rainbow flag incident," Najia Bounaim, North Africa campaigns director at Amnesty International said in a statement.
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In a memo last fall and in summaries of focus groups this spring, they noted that a wide range of ethnic minorities had voiced fears that the government would use citizenship information to persecute or even deport them — and one group with Vietnamese heritage even abandoned a focus group after learning that the next census would ask about citizenship.
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On Thursday, she appeared to be citing the Catholic tenet on hatred, which holds that "hatred of the neighbor is a sin" and that believers should "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you..." When she was a child, Pelosi has said, her mother thought it might be nice if she became a nun.
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Rather than fixing the problem or even just allowing the IRS to continue the process to fix its own rules, they have chosen to spend years and millions of dollars on fruitless investigations, and then to persecute those who have done nothing wrong other than run an agency that does a difficult and thankless job — collecting the taxes America needs to provide vital government services.
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It is not true that I was personally of such a high rank as to be able to persecute, or that I myself was a persecutor in the pursuit of the Jews, in the face of such an abundant rule it is clear the judges in their ruling ignored the fact that I never served in such a high position as required to be involved independently in such decisive responsibilities.
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Amnesty International spoke to the IB Times about the treatment these individuals were subjected to while in police custody: "In a matter of days the Egyptian security forces have rounded up dozens of people and carried out five anal examinations signalling a sharp escalation in the authorities' efforts to persecute and intimidate members of the LGBTI community following the rainbow flag incident," the North Africa Campaigns Director at Amnesty, Najia Bounaim, told the outlet.
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Using the foundation as her platform, Dr. Krim promoted needle-exchange programs and the use of condoms and other safe-sex practices; castigated religious leaders who denounced homosexuality as immoral; fought mandatory AIDS testing that might be used to persecute gay people; opposed the use of placebos in experimental drug trials, saying patients might be dead before outcomes were proved; and campaigned for laws to bar discrimination against gay people in housing and employment.
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That was a major accomplishment considering the abuses carried on by Obama administration: Running a program to spy on adversarial reporters; using the IRS to persecute political opponents in Tea Party nonprofits; overseeing a sloppy program of arming violent criminals along the border; orchestrating a cover-up to blame a YouTube video for the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya; and of course the scandals, wrapped in abuse and surrounded by law breaking, concerning the server, emails and smartphones of former-Secretary Clinton and her enablers.
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That many of the players alluded to are black men was not lost on me, or anyone else who is aware of President Trump's background; one which includes being charged by the Federal government for housing discrimination against African Americans, an unyielding effort to persecute the Central Park Five long after they were acquitted, and more recently as the standard bearer of the "Birther" crusade against former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,85033 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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