KAINE: ... persecuting journalists... PENCE: Right, this is grade school.
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"Typically, we think of the Romans persecuting Christians," he said.
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What better example of a heavy-handed atheistic state persecuting belief?
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But, in the meantime, the people who were persecuting her in
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Persecuting teachers in same-sex marriages is Archbishop Thompson's specific focus.
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Instead of persecuting users, it is establishing greater control over internet providers.
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They're persecuting and killing people — but we will overcome all of this.
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He was intolerant of criticism, persecuting opponents and imposing restrictions on the media.
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During the remarks, Trump called for world leaders to stop persecuting people of faith.
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The late Mr. Chávez was known for blackballing or persecuting individuals who opposed him publicly.
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"North Korea is persecuting their savior, a person who came to help them," Lee said.
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Whether to visit a country that is currently persecuting people is a different ethical choice.
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Morales backers blame Añez for the violence and say her government is persecuting his supporters.
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This version, they argue, continues a policy of persecuting people based on their immigration status.
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Advocates have campaigned for Jackson's replacement due to his policies persecuting Native Americans and other matters.
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Speak about LGBTQ rights internationally and take the matter up with nations who are persecuting people.
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Under Karadzic's leadership, Serbs occupied 70 percent of the country, killing and persecuting Muslims and Croats.
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His government is accused by the opposition and human rights groups of persecuting and killing opponents.
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Dorje Shugden devotees accuse the 80-year-old Nobel Laureate of persecuting them and dividing Tibetan Buddhism.
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The show drives hard into a deeper allegory about the cost of persecuting those we don't understand.
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His supporters alleged that the case was a US government plot aimed at persecuting the Christian leader.
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"Now they have started persecuting our long-term commercial partners, they are threatening them," Quevedo told reporters.
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Dan Kaminsky, a well-known security researcher, likened the government's approach to persecuting firefighters during a firestorm.
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And the government has often been accused of persecuting Shiites in Saudi Arabia, which is predominantly Sunni.
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Instead of turning everything into a debate about whether the #MeToo movement was really about persecuting men.
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Government measures that can be construed as targeting, even persecuting, Muslims only provide fodder for jihadist propaganda.
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Myanmar denies persecuting members of the Muslim minority, saying its forces have carried out legitimate counterinsurgency operations.
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" The office of Prime Minister Tsipras issued a statement saying: "the only one persecuting Samaras is his past.
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India, the most populous democracy, abstained, along with Iran and Turkey, which both have reputations for persecuting journalists.
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But most astounding is its illogic of requiring a persecutor to vouch for the person he is persecuting.
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The Ukrainian security service, he said, was not persecuting believers who want to remain under the Moscow patriarchate.
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According to Mr. Mihr, Germany's current instruments for persecuting hate speech, as demonstrated by Tuesday's raids, are working.
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Conservative political and business elites were persecuting her again, this time to sabotage her pro-poor policies, she contended.
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The shock was understandable as the militarized Burmese state was infamous for persecuting anyone who was not a Buddhist.
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It turns out they aren't completely willing to offer sanctuary to those they claim the Trump administration is persecuting.
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The persecuting state's own people are hurt the most, but the rest of us, connected through globalization, also suffer.
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If you're busy persecuting millions of blacks you don't have much time left for tens of thousands of Jews.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents.
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To his critics, Mr. Starr was a moralistic, sex-obsessed Inspector Javert persecuting a president out of ideological animus.
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But although PH has stopped persecuting journalists, it has not, as it promised, done away with the instruments of repression.
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The towns deny the allegations and say the federal government is persecuting town officials because it disapproves of their religion.
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The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has rebuked his coreligionists for persecuting the Rohingya, saying they should "remember Buddha".
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"The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," the statement continued.
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"The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," the letter states.
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With him, "hater" is a term of compound narcissism: It's persecuting and persecuted, wronged and righting, both sword and shield.
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When Rome burned in 63 A.D., imperial officials responded by persecuting the early Christians for abandoning the city's polytheistic faith.
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Kazan was, as the narrative goes, the latest home of the infidels who had been persecuting Russian Christians for centuries.
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"The raid shows that we don't need this law because we have already instruments for persecuting such crimes," he said.
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Since then, she has been traveling around the region denouncing the Maduro government for persecuting her and engaging in corruption.
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The church might not go down well with authorities—the government promotes secularism and is often accused of persecuting religious people.
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Islamic State tries to provoke the West into persecuting Muslims and thus driving sympathisers from the "grey zone" towards radical participation.
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An IS-affiliated group in Sinai has a record of persecuting Sufis, beheading a 100-year-old cleric late last year.
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His sentencing is a huge step in persecuting a sexual violence crime that we don't often discuss — assault that happens online.
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"This is a cowardly government that does not tire of persecuting, with lies, whoever thinks differently," tweeted opposition lawmaker Jorge Millan.
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Turning on a computer at home meant lifting on online tollgate that bullies could speed through to continue persecuting their victims.
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In the 50 years since her tragic passing, officials are only recently making strides towards solving and persecuting Sister Cathy's killer.
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By persecuting such activists, the mullahs ultimately risk exacerbating not only the popular uprising but also one of its major causes.
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Many big city mayors and some governors have said they will refuse to cooperate with federal authorities persecuting non-criminal aliens.
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I'm talking about clients with the clear intention of harming and persecuting users: state authorities, intelligence agencies and fundamentalist religious groups.
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Since then, she has been traveling around Latin America denouncing the Maduro government for allegedly persecuting her and engaging in corruption.
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When the Communists took power in 1949, they, like the Nationalists, officially recognized four religions — but then promptly began persecuting them.
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The leaders of Malaysia and Cambodia, Najib Razak and Hun Sen, have proved depressingly adept at locking up critics and persecuting opponents.
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During the Civil War, Southerners would cite the witch trials to attack the Union for its supposed irrationality in persecuting the war.
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So pushing pedophiles further into the shadows by persecuting them at every turn may well increase the possibility that they will offend.
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When a Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism leaked in 2009, it prompted accusations that Democrats were persecuting conservatives.
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They worry that locking down an entire province and persecuting an entire ethnic group will only instill long-lasting resentment among Uighurs.
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Second: Persecuting and jailing a political opponent only makes it more likely that you and your allies will be persecuted in turn.
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Mr Modi, claims Praveen Chakravarty, a Congress official, is not really interested in stamping out corruption, nor even in persecuting individual politicians.
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Some in Morocco saw it as another example of the government persecuting critical journalists and activists by charging them with moral crimes.
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During the Civil War, Southerners would cite the witch trials to attack the Union for its supposed irrationality in persecuting the war.
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Days later he reversed course again, saying he hoped the church would continue mediating and insisting that the government was not persecuting it.
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That novel imagines an America where an anti-Semitic, authoritarian Charles Lindbergh defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency and begins persecuting Jews.
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Tracking potential spreaders is sound policy, but punishing or persecuting them risks driving them underground, making it even harder to fight the outbreak.
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But with 70 countries still persecuting same-sex relations, and many WEF corporate sponsors publicly supportive of equality, arguably more can be done.
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What Pompeo's saying: Background: Özil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, condemned China on Twitter and Instagram for persecuting Uighur minorities in Xinjiang.
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Paul went from persecuting Christians to becoming the faith's most famous evangelist, responsible for the spread of Christianity around the ancient Western world.
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In 1983 a court in Beijing sentenced her to 17 years in prison on charges of persecuting and vilifying people, including party leaders.
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"The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," the group wrote in a press release.
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OWFI wants ISIS leaders to be charged with crimes against humanity for persecuting LGBT people, which would be a revolutionary step in international law.
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Mr Poroshenko also outlined his hopes for an independent church that would operate freely, without persecuting others, in the Ukrainian lands that he controls.
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If Myanmar can get away with persecuting, killing, and expelling their ethnic minorities, we must expect that other bad actors will do the same.
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Not content with securing a ban on the main opposition party, he is now persecuting unions, NGOs and anyone else who criticises the government.
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To qualify for asylum, an applicant would have to show that the people who persecuted her were also persecuting others on the same basis.
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Possessed of a quiet dignity, a deep earnestness, and the support of his entire country, Mignini spent years persecuting Knox without any substantial proof.
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In his own testimony before lawmakers, Justice Kavanaugh denied the allegations, and sometimes shouted and teared up as he accused Democrats of persecuting him.
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Dr. Rowland refused to be interrogated, and he was fired from the N.I.H. "He stood up to the people who were persecuting us," Mrs.
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Borodin has denied the allegations, saying that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who served as the country's president at the time, is persecuting him.
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She has pursued a dogged vendetta against her main rival for the job of prime minister, Khaleda Zia, hounding her supporters and persecuting her party.
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Nonetheless, his rhetoric has given succour to autocrats in other countries, who have passed laws outlawing "fake news" and quickly set about persecuting political opponents.
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From Constantinople Beatriz organised a boycott of the papal port of Ancona to punish the pope for persecuting Jews who had returned to their faith.
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Real, de jure sovereignty for Taiwan can probably come only if a thuggish China, today persecuting rights activists, evolves into a more liberal state. Impossible?
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The essence of the candidate's argument, Mr. Rambukwella said, would be that human rights campaigners are persecuting leaders who liberated Sri Lanka from civil war.
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The radicalisation of the protests is, in part, a consequence of China's strategy of persecuting more moderate opposition leaders trying to work within the system.
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On a smaller scale, perhaps 25,000 Nicaraguans have sought asylum in Costa Rica (population: 4.9m) since its dictator, Daniel Ortega, began persecuting the opposition in April.
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But I think it's really important to emphasize that this practice of hounding, persecuting, subjecting to humiliation, beating gay men, especially in Chechnya, is not new.
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Hindu nationalists, encouraged by the election of one of their own to the country's highest office, began persecuting and even killing Muslims and low-caste Hindus.
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The website called Mr. Bianco, Bishops McElroy and Dolan and Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles part of a "homosexualist cabal" that was persecuting Catholic traditionalists.
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Mr. Trump has made clear that he thinks the attorney general should function as a president's personal lawyer, protecting him from justice and persecuting his enemies.
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"What he's done is spend all his time persecuting me, creating cases to prosecute me and my family," Ortega told neighboring Colombia's W Radio this month.
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The arrests outraged many in Morocco who saw it as another example of the government persecuting critical journalists and activists by charging them with moral crimes.
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Rohingya activists tell the publication that their accounts are frequently suspended or taken down as they post videos and photos showing the country's military persecuting them.
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"A community is not going to stop persecuting another community because some other part of the country is going to get the aid cut," he said.
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"The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," Women of Color of Time's Up said in their statement.
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Unlike the Nuremberg-style justice used in other genocide cases, which focuses on persecuting top-level instigators only, communities actively participate in the justice and reconciliation process.
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" The lawsuit accuses the alliance of collaborating with the Chinese government by persecuting Falun Gong in the United States and seeking "to purge Flushing of Falun Gong.
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Whose administration then set new Olympics-level records when it came to rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests and persecuting suspected leakers of information to the media.
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Persecuting people for their religious beliefs violates basic principles of justice as well as the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which China signed in 1948.
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They're essentially persecuting a majority black firm for its choice to fight on behalf of the black victims of police brutality cases in a deeply segregated city.
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Midway through the movie, Rodrigues and Garupe split up, in part because Garupe believes their presence results in Japanese authorities persecuting the Christians in the local villages.
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"Much of the Polish resistance in its various movements not only failed to help Jews, but was also not infrequently actively involved in persecuting them," Yad Vashem said.
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And lest you curse me to eternal slumber, I'm in no way defending their actions (because persecuting your stepdaughter and forcing her to be your maid is bad).
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President Trump has turned American foreign policy into an extortion racket, abusing his powers to goad foreign leaders into persecuting his domestic rivals and improve his political standing.
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These thugs have discovered that, by painting you as a sinister moneyman bent on destroying Hungary as Hungarians know it, they can win votes by persecuting your organisation.
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Egypt, always a nettlesome partner for America, knows Russia will not punish it for persecuting dissidents and democrats, as America did in August when it cut some aid.
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She was imprisoned and made a political pariah, accused of persecuting innocent officials, scholars and students, including Deng Pufang, the son of the later Communist leader Deng Xiaoping.
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Although it does not explicitly outlaw homosexuality, some fear the criminalization of extra-marital sex and new obscenity laws could form a legal basis for persecuting gay people.
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The Washington Post editorialized that "congressional chivvying of this kind," with Mr. Dingell appearing "to be persecuting Dr. Baltimore for no purpose," would not bring about constructive change.
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He served as the mediator in peace negotiations between the Zapatistas and the government but later quit, accusing the government of persecuting him and not negotiating in good faith.
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It is real and it comes actually as there's been a lot of social media crackdowns in Russia on what people post and sort of persecuting them for that.
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The refugee and immigration crisis emanating from Central America, for example, is not the result of strong states persecuting their citizens, but of weak states that can't protect them.
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As if to underline the point, the authorities have set about persecuting Future Forward and its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, with a gusto typically reserved for supporters of Mr Thaksin.
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"He said he wished he didn't know Hillary so he could really go to town on the people persecuting her so he could really speak his mind," says Zimmerman.
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" According to Yad Vashem, "Much of the Polish resistance in its various movements not only failed to help Jews, but was also not infrequently actively involved in persecuting them.
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Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, BIRD's head of advocacy, said his relatives were convicted based on confessions gained by torture and said the court was persecuting the family for his activism.
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New reporting that China has detained 100 Christians follows other assessments that they are persecuting thousands of Muslim Uighurs, which could trigger US sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act.
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Among other indiscretions, he accused China of influencing the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections, stealing US intellectual property, persecuting religious groups, and aggressively patrolling the South China Sea.
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And this approach is a sound political strategy for the President, one he can leverage in the run-up to the 2020 election to accuse Democrats of unfairly persecuting him.
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" Written by and addressed to women of color, the Time's Up statement noted, "The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause.
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Mr Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe henchman notorious for persecuting the opposition and for organising the rigging of elections, returned from a short exile on November 20133nd, promising "a new democracy".
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To expect that a government would provide information about the people it is persecuting and other relevant information to enable the United States to adjudicate the persecution claim is ludicrous.
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Huawei is viewed as a global success story inside China, and Beijing's support will be viewed positively in a country where most citizens believe the U.S. is persecuting the company.
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By contrast, there has been no evidence of the impeachment backlash against Democrats—either for persecuting Trump or for diverting their attention from "kitchen table issues"—that many long predicted.
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Unions on the other hand have accused Macri, a scion of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, of persecuting workers in a country where support for labor rights is historically strong.
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Beijing has been accused of persecuting Uighurs, with at least a million believed to be detained in what China insists are vocational centers aimed at reducing the spread of extremism.
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The fact that it chose to integrate the old elites instead of persecuting them has turned out to be, at once, the revolution's lasting achievement and its ultimate Achilles' heel.
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Time's Up takes aim at R. Kelly "The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," a letter from the group stated.
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David is taken in by Melanie Bird (an imposing Jean Smart), a therapist who believes that he could be a powerful weapon in a "war" against the forces persecuting mutants.
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Under General Alvarez, Uruguay was part of the secret alliance of South American dictatorships known as Operation Condor, in which military leaders cooperated in persecuting and killing one another's dissidents.
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The UN and various international human rights organizations have condemned the country's treatment of Uyghur people, but China has not indicated it has any plans to stop persecuting the population.
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So, if Donald Trump really wants to gain a measure of retribution against those persecuting him, he should get into the fact business — an industry largely abandoned by his tormentors.
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And fresh in memories is a time, only a few years ago, when the Gulen movement was aligned with the president and Mr. Gulen's followers were blamed for persecuting authors.
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It targeted the Protestant king, James I, who was negotiating an end to war with Spain while halfheartedly persecuting Catholics as the English Reformation wound its way toward civil war.
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"The Singaporean government's history of persecuting dissenting voices makes the proposed public order law particularly frightening," Asia director at Human Rights Watch Brad Adams said in a press release last week.
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Mr Johnson thinks not; he suggests the current policy of picking favoured religions and persecuting inconvenient ones could backfire, in part because the faiths being repressed will refuse to go away.
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As long as that's the case, a significant segment of the political class will be able to thrive on a platform of gutting welfare spending, persecuting immigrants, and stigmatizing religious minorities.
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Beijing has been accused of persecuting Uighurs, with at least a million believed to be detained in what China insists are vocational centers aimed at reducing the spread of Islamist extremism.
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On the other hand, when government has had easy access to our information in the past, it has had nefarious consequences, such as turning into a surveillance state and persecuting dissidents.
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In a letter originally published by The Root, the group says: "The scars of history make certain that we are not interested in persecuting anyone without just cause," the letter states.
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The Dalai Lama told journalists in Dharamsala, India, that those who were persecuting Rohingya "should remember Buddha," a pointed reminder to the Buddhists who make up a majority of Myanmar's population.
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Yet it is for the same reason that Beijing has spent decades persecuting other religions or spiritual practices not typically associated with modern terrorism or separatism, like Protestantism and Falun Gong.
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The backdrop: Özil, a Turkish-German soccer player, denounced China on Twitter and Instagram for persecuting Uighur minorities in Xinjiang province, while also calling out Muslim-majority countries for their silence.
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"A trip of this magnitude by the Crown provides unwarranted legitimacy to a dictatorship with a decades-long history of persecuting and imprisoning its defectors and repressing its people," Scott wrote.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday said Twitter was an "expression of fascism" after accounts linked to his government were suspended, accusing the U.S. company of persecuting his followers.
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For example, when Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014, Russian sources pushed out a narrative that Moscow's adversaries were "fascists" bent on persecuting Ukraine's native Russian-speaking population.
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"Clearly, Russia has effectively reinstated its darkest period of history by relentlessly persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses, as did its intolerant Soviet predecessors," Jarrod Lopes, a spokesman for the organization, told the news outlet.
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Imagine if the Clinton Foundation was flagrantly breaking campaign finance law, making phantom donations to charities that never saw the money, blowing cash on sports memorabilia, and persecuting Hillary Clinton's political enemies.
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The audit was launched a year ago following a sharp upsurge in rebukes of Facebook's permissive attitude toward hateful and abusive content, largely aimed at persecuting people of color and religious minorities.
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" And religious liberty, according to renowned author and Jesuit priest Reverend James Martin, "cannot be, and should not be, a camouflage for hating, persecuting, or excluding people who are different from you.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it had determined that Myanmar is persecuting its Rohingya Muslims, but the government's treatment of the religious minority group does not constitute genocide.
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He's the mind behind what has been described as the White House's "ransom note" approach to recent immigration policy negotiations, one that grants nominal protections to young immigrants while persecuting their families.
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China has been accused of detaining a million Muslims and persecuting ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang, and 22 ambassadors signed a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council this week criticizing its policies.
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Despite the fact that China is persecuting Uighur Muslims in its western Xinjiang region and forcing them into camps, Pakistani officials rely on China too heavily for much outcry on that issue.
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"Can they take the next step and defend another huge group of Muslims facing persecution when it's not a tiny little government like Myanmar that's persecuting them but great big China?" he asked.
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World Briefing The State Department said on Monday that it had determined that Myanmar was persecuting its Rohingya Muslims, but that the government's treatment of the religious minority group did not constitute genocide.
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For members of Congress who follow the Judeo-Christian tradition, I remind them of the millennial prohibition against persecuting the stranger as well as the fact that Jesus and his family were refugees.
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And when they were still allied with the government, their cadres in the judiciary were accused of persecuting secular soldiers and politicians in a purge that draws comparisons to Mr. Erdogan's crackdown today.
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They also sought action over "the consistent pattern of human rights violations in persecuting Chinese citizens during the past three decades who broke the silence" about the events of June 3-4, 1989.
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Trump's comment is also a reminder to Democrats that any sign they are persecuting the President without grounds, or acting unfairly could harm them with moderate voters who swapped sides in the midterm elections.
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It is especially sad that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi does not see that her own erstwhile battle for democratic freedoms prevailed with the help of the same free press she is now persecuting.
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"If you have this paranoid streak, this vigilance, this sense that others have been persecuting you for years, there's an accumulation of maltreatment and an intense urge to stop that persecution," Dr. Meloy said.
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That military campaign has been likened by some candidates to a soft coup, and has included sidelining candidates who are out of the military's favor, censoring major news outlets and persecuting peaceful political movements.
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Of course, Greece has actually admitted to manufacturing this dispute as a way to keep persecuting the large Macedonian population that it inherited after Macedonia's partition among Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania earlier last century.
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Even if you have no luck, nobody is persecuting you, and you have zero grounds to become an American, you can become one with an investment visa — and such visas give a path to citizenship.
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Both these statesmen became advocates of religiously neutral governance in part because they saw how the Anglican establishment in their home state of Virginia was abusing its privileged status, for example by persecuting Baptist preachers.
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"It is the government of the DRC that is said to be persecuting its own people by killing, maiming and torching houses, as well as committing rape and looting food stored in granaries," Aylara said.
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All of this is on top of Iran's already shoddy human rights record, which includes numerous cases of executing gays, jailing and beating women who don't cover their hair, and persecuting Muslim converts to Christianity.
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This perception of Westerners and nonbelievers justifies acts of extreme violence such as beheading foreign hostages such as Japan's Kenji Goto, persecuting of Coptic Christians and burning alive prisoners such as Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh.
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Chairman Mao briefly encouraged dissent with the immortal words "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"—before imprisoning or persecuting hundreds of thousands of those who took him at his word.
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She said she had no desire to "make windows into men's souls", but nonetheless, after a fairly tolerant start to her reign, ended up by persecuting Catholics who were seen as a threat to national security.
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So, instead of the United States getting to say, 'You, Russia, are persecuting people who are political dissidents,' Putin got to say, 'We're giving him rights, because he's going to be persecuted in the United States.
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Of particular concern to liberals has been Khan's support for the death sentence for those convicted under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law and his support for legislation persecuting the country's Ahmadis -- a minority Muslim movement -- as heretics.
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While I don't recall Jesus chastising people for overtly persecuting the poor, he did condemn the failure to see the poor for who they really are and for failing to see the fullness of their circumstances.
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This means the central government in Beijing has a pretty strong incentive to make sure it's not perceived as persecuting Muslims all over China, as that would almost certainly infuriate many of its Islamic partner nations.
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But waning growth deprives Trump of the argument President Clinton used so skillfully during his impeachment ordeal — namely, while his congressional opponents fixated on persecuting him, the president was hard at work successfully promoting prosperity for everyone.
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The pro-Moscow government that was finally installed in the aughts has harnessed much of the religious rhetoric to fortify its own power, while also persecuting anyone who identifies with strands of Islam that it deems radical.
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"If a gay person was taken to Dachau concentration camp, that was without a doubt the last you'd see of them," Becker told the USC Shoa Foundation when he was interviewed about the Nazis persecuting gay people.
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Of course, two of those countries subsequently fell to the Nazis, who continued persecuting – and in many cases killing – those who had fled in 1939 and could have had been saved had the United States admitted them.
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And then needs to hold them close to confirm that those feelings aren't located in themselves but are outside of themselves, and paradoxically becomes subordinated to the people that they're persecuting, because they can't operate without them.
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This week, more than 100 Chinese lawyers put their names to a petition calling on the national legislature to stop the police and other government authorities from harassing and persecuting criminal defense lawyers trying to represent their clients.
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Far from helping trace the remaining graves, the Bosnian Serb leadership continues to deny the genocide, in the face of rulings by the Hague tribunal, and even accuses the federal government in Sarajevo of persecuting the Serb population.
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Targeting such groups, Mr. van der Maat said, is "easier" because the public is more likely to accept that those groups are threatening, and that there also is little political cost to persecuting those who are already weak.
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It was broadly assumed Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and Archbishop Boulos Yazigi - respective heads of the Syriac and Greek Orthodox Churches in Aleppo – were captured by ISIS or al-Qaeda, both of whom have a vicious history of persecuting Christians.
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Apparently not satisfied with persecuting the Muslim Uighur community in its own Xinjiang province by, among other things, throwing an estimated million or more of them in torturous "re-education camps," Beijing is targeting Uighurs who live outside China.
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Three organizations announced a petition on Wednesday asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring charges against ISIS for persecuting the people under its control on the basis of gender — including the public execution of men alleged to be gay.
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The new law "against hate and intolerance," denounced by rights groups as a sham aimed at persecuting the opposition, was set to be approved on Friday by a new legislative superbody elected last month at the behest of President Nicolas Maduro.
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But when an entire community pours into the streets to decry the killing of Anthony Lamar Smith or any other black person wrongly killed at the hands of the very people meant to protect them, that community isn't persecuting police officers.
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By rejecting Turkey's European Union prospects, persecuting large sections of society and challenging the United States (Turkey's major ally), Mr. Erdogan is not only alienating disparate forces that would undermine any military intervention — he also risks uniting them against him.
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While some people are unbothered by the idea of persecuting someone not because he committed a crime but because of a sexuality they didn't choose and don't want, there are good reasons to be against this kind of mob justice.
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The Caribbean island nation has made great strides over the past decade on rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, after persecuting them in the early years after its 1959 revolution and sending many to correctional labor camps.
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In addition to showing that she's being persecuted according to one of the five characteristics, an asylum applicant has to show that her government is either persecuting her itself or is unwilling or unable to protect her from her persecutors.
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The urge to batten down the hatches may actually feed the cultural patterns that enabled the election of Donald Trump: the impulse to associate only with people like ourselves and grow even more certain that evil forces are persecuting us.
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It's a tricky dilemma for Americans, when our own country is persecuting asylum seekers and separating children from their parents at our southern border, or when certain states have passed laws criminalizing people with uteruses who don't carry pregnancies to term.
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Across the world, autocratic leaders are engaging in increasingly brazen behavior — rigging votes, muzzling the press and persecuting opponents — as they dispense with even a fig leaf of democratic practice once offered to placate the United States or gain international legitimacy.
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So obviously, we are rooting for Sessions to stay right where he is … and, um, keep persecuting immigrants, ratchet up imprisonments for nonviolent crimes and maybe go back to his old dream of imposing the death penalty on marijuana dealers.
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Alleged tax harassment by officers became a hot-button issue in India after V.G. Siddharta, the founder of India's largest coffee shop chain, committed suicide in July and reportedly left behind a note accusing the tax authorities of persecuting him.
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" The next year, an Epoch Times reporter was removed from a White House event for Chinese President Hu Jintao after interrupting the ceremony by shouting for several minutes that then-President George W. Bush must stop the leader from "persecuting Falun Gong.
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But as it turns 35 amid consistent talk of travel bans and extreme vetting of refugees, under an administration that has more or less given its blessing for fearmongering against transgender people, Claremont and Anderson's story about persecuting mutants feels especially apropos.
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Unlike the 34 percent of white women who wanted to elect an accused child molester to US Senate, 98 percent of us cast our ballots for a candidate who would protect affordable health care and had a history of persecuting racist terrorists.
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A truce with Beijing would differ from the truce with the sexual revolution in that no specific doctrinal issue is at stake, and no one doubts that the pope has authority to conclude a concordat with a heretofore hostile and persecuting regime.
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What might Syria, Iraq or Libya have looked like today if they had respected their Jewish citizens instead of scapegoating and persecuting them, both out of appreciation for their contributions and as a guarantee of tolerance for other ethnic or religious minorities?
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Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the grand rabbi of Satmar, the largest Hasidic sect in the United States, whose stronghold is in Williamsburg, went as far as to say that the government was persecuting Jewish religious schools and essentially declared war against the department.
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But the spasm of violence has raised questions about whether radical Muslims here — who have largely confined their activities to pushing for Islamic laws, persecuting religious minorities and ransacking bars that they consider affronts to Islam — are becoming pawns in Indonesia's secular politics.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist leader who is topping polls for the 2018 election, on Thursday told supporters protesting his conviction for corruption charges that his political opponents were persecuting him in the courts.
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But this is precisely what makes it so dangerous for Trump to emerge unscathed and emboldened: Trump believes what he did was right, and that the wrongdoing is entirely on the part of the Democrats and the media, who are unfairly persecuting him.
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" Another artist whom we'll call A — he requested to be quoted anonymously due to some extremists on the right persecuting DIY art spaces and their inhabitants — lived at two different warehomes and said many have "small bedrooms with a massive amount of common space.
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Rather, they threaten the return of longstanding tendency in modern secular polities — an institutionalized anti-Catholicism that effectively oppresses the church even if it stops short of persecuting it, a form of liberalism that is (if you will) integrally opposed to my religion's flourishing.
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Just as Muslims take on the character of their vanished Hindu enemies by persecuting low-caste Christians if only in the name of religion, so do Hindu militants in India lynch Muslims by acting the part of medieval invaders who happened to be their coreligionists.
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"I regret the embarrassing show of the dictatorship to try to prevent the inevitable: that despite persecuting and imprisoning, they have not broken the fighting spirit of the deputies and that of all Venezuela," Guaido said via Twitter during the early hours of Monday morning.
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This, therapeutically, is fascinating, because we need each other to understand the problem, and it's incredibly painful to sit with people who are persecuting you or what you dead, or gone, or like, you know, want America to be what it was during Jim Crow.
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" - Free Expression Myanmar, a Yangon-based NGO, said: "Prosecuting – and persecuting – two investigative journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for doing their job is a national shame intended only to stop any information coming out about what is really happening inside Myanmar's many conflict areas.
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There is a major irony in the fact that the witch hunts of the 17th-century Salem variety were mostly geared at persecuting women, as The Washington Post pointed out last year, whereas the persecuted ones in the witch hunt defense today are, for the most part, powerful men.
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At the same time, Muslim opinion leaders should help their societies understand that these laws serve not the honor of Islam, but much more mundane interests — for example, persecuting non-Muslim minorities out of greed or jealousy, or silencing Muslims themselves who criticize and challenge the powers that be.
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"I appeal to the president to pardon me because to do so would be an action that would show these corrupt courts that they're not going to get away with persecuting people for their free speech or for the crime of getting the president elected," Jones recounted Stone saying.
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In that case, conservatives argued that the allegations were thinly sourced and a testament to liberal overreach, that the attacks on him were really about persecuting a good and honest conservative Catholic, and that the media was hyping up false allegations against Kavanaugh as part of their overall liberal bias.
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Those psychiatrists who served after 1968 and after America repudiated the war were typically bitter, disillusioned and deeply regretful because, while by then most were against the war and earnestly sought to reduce psychiatric suffering, their soldier-patients nonetheless opposed treatment as if they were agents of a persecuting military.
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Mr. Somers said in an interview that most of the images of Jewish persecution that had previously been exhibited were taken by those doing the persecuting: Nazi occupiers documented their activities for leaders in Germany, while Nazi sympathizers used photographs of Jewish people to accompany articles in decidedly anti-Semitic pamphlets.
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The president is Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole), the famous aviator who, in this alternative past, defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 on a platform of antiwar isolationism laced with anti-Semitism, made nice with the Nazis and began a gradual program of persecuting American Jews in the name of assimilation.
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Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE says he is repulsed by reports that authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are persecuting suspected gay men.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE says America will not ignore reports that authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are persecuting suspected gay men.
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"By now, there are plenty of survivor accounts that reveal Kim Jong Un's administration is routinely persecuting those who are forced back to North Korea after departing illegally, and subjecting them to torture, sexual violence, forced labour – and even worse," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement, referring to the North's leader.
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Cruz's stump speech is about what President Ted Cruz would do on his first day in office, a list that includes rescinding every single executive order ever issued by Barack Obama; opening an investigation into Planned Parenthood; instructing the IRS and other rogue federal agencies to stop persecuting Christians; and ripping up the Iranian nuclear deal.
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"That sequence of events seemed to support Mr. Ball's claim that the complaint emanated from one individual, and that individual bore a grudge against him and was persecuting him, that the complaint was false, but that the individual had nonetheless profited from the complaint by selling his story," Charles said in a statement to the inquiry.
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The most thrilling passages in the Jungle Books are the wild, out-of-control ones: the chases, the hunts, Mowgli's abduction by the monkeys, the amazing moment in the second volume when Mowgli, to punish the villagers who have been persecuting the humans who took care of him, causes the jungle itself to run riot and overgrow the village.
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In court filings this week, they said that starting in late February, Mr. Manafort repeatedly tried to reach the two journalists — with whom he had fallen out of contact until recently — to coordinate their accounts about their work to tamp down international criticism of Mr. Yanukovych for corruption, persecuting rivals and pivoting toward Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin.
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The political reason Trump is embracing both of these stories is clear enough: He's trying to cast Russia-related dirt on both Democrats and the FBI (which he views as part of a "deep state" unfairly persecuting him), to try to discredit the investigation as a whole, and to change the subject from the question of whether any of his associates colluded with the Russian government during the campaign.
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And so, when it comes to racism, which is frequently predicated on fear, lack of interconnection, no way to disconfirm a biased belief about somebody — the way this theory's been applied by a number of really powerful senior analysts in the community, Kimberlyn Leary, Dorothy Holmes, has been to point out the fact that the racist needs the person they're persecuting to be the repository of the feelings they can't tolerate.
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"He said to me, 'Alex, barring a miracle, I appeal to God and I appeal to your listeners for prayer, and I appeal to the president to pardon me because to do so would be an action that would show these corrupt courts that they're not going to get away with persecuting people for their free speech or for the crime of getting the president elected,'" Jones said.
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"And he said to me: 'Alex, barring a miracle, I appeal to God and I appeal to your listeners for prayer, and I appeal to the president to pardon me because to do so would be an action that would show these corrupt courts that they're not going to get away with persecuting people for their free speech or for the crime of getting the president elected,'" Jones said, according to Newsweek.
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New targets should include Ebrahim Raisi, the head of Iran's largest charitable foundation, Astan Quds Razavi, and the supreme leader's pick to next head the judiciary; Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri and his office for, among other things, prosecution and threats of prosecution of activists; and Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi, whose department has taken a leading role in both persecuting dissidents and detaining Western hostages like Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Dr. Djalali.
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It would catalog the years of racial profiling, the tormenting of immigrants and Latinos, the physical mistreatment and humiliation of inmates and defendants, the beatings and neglect and deaths behind bars, the abuses of office — withholding records, harassing and persecuting elected officials and journalists, failing to investigate hundreds of unsolved sex crimes, squandering taxpayer funds on crime sweeps and "posses" and looney-tune vendettas, like the mission to expose President Obama's supposedly forged birth certificate.
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As Vox's Andrew Prokop previously put it: The political reason Trump is embracing both of these stories is clear enough: He's trying to cast Russia-related dirt on both Democrats and the FBI (which he views as part of a "deep state" unfairly persecuting him), to try to discredit the investigation as a whole, and to change the subject from the question of whether any of his associates colluded with the Russian government during the campaign.
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People hunting for a specific kind of grievance to wear as their own found it in Tebow, and they spun some truly weird shit around him—that he had somehow been touched by God in a way the NFL's other objectively miraculous talents were not, that various opaque elites were first persecuting and then blackballing him because they detested his open religiosity, that the media was conspiring to conceal the truth of all this from the public.
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So it was no surprise that the president himself tried to push them on Twitter Thursday: The political reason Trump is embracing both of these stories is clear enough: He's trying to cast Russia-related dirt on both Democrats and the FBI (which he views as part of a "deep state" unfairly persecuting him), to try to discredit the investigation as a whole, and to change the subject from the question of whether any of his associates colluded with the Russian government during the campaign.
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