Sentences with phrase «fear of persecution by»

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that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

The phrase «Separation of Church and State» was Jefferson's response to the Danbury Baptists who feared persecution by Connecticut's majority sect, a fear based in the use of State powers by dominant religious sects in virtually every colony to oppress minority religious views.

His fears are backed up by recent reports that show just how dramatically Christianity has declined in the country under the persecution of ISIS.

It is interesting to note how Christian broadcasters use this same fear - creation by highlighting threats to common values, by stressing crises in society or in the program, and by interpreting criticism or investigation of their programs as personal persecution by adversaries.

For instance, uncertainty about the 1994 - 1998 Rwandan refugees» future in exile is compounded by the recent resolution of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to launch military attacks on refugees based in the DRC.35 No account has been taken concerning the fact that they are survivors of the 1996 - 2000 massive forced repatriation and that they have been more vulnerable to extremely stressful and traumatic events that took place since the invasion of Rwanda on October 01, 1990.36 Although they are indeed susceptible to posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, high level of fear and anxiety (psychosomatic) and / or malnutrition caused by the persecution and destruction of the war, no one who wants to empathise with them.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

The first movement of Rwandan refugees arrived in South Africa in December 1996 after escaping forced massive repatriation, perpetrated by Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon without regard of said refugees» fears of a personal, real and foreseeable risk of persecution or torture and of probable human rights abuses back home.

The exhibition includes photographs from two of Griffin's early series» which employ potent metaphors; Copyright, 1978, a reproduction of the persecution of Jesus Christ in his own apartment and London By Night, 1983, which shows the aftermath of a fictitious nuclear attack on London, echoing the fear of the Cold War.

[29] «PRESS RELEASE — EU Court of Justice rules sexual orientation valid ground for fear of persecution in asylum procedures (7th November 2013: E-mailed to Author by Selun Bruno, Secretary, Intergroup on LGBT Rights: European Parliament).

In the two - track approach to the European human rights project, where the Luxembourg Court is also proactive in providing guidance, the Strasbourg Court in 2013 in M.E v Sweden is being asked by the interveners [42] to apply the guidance of the UK Supreme Court, [43] and the UK Upper Tribunal, [44] in engaging with the risk group (those who are open), and how they are identified («not being straight enough, including straight individuals, due to non-compliance with a heteronormative stereotype in the eyes of the potential persecutor»), independent of whether an individual is «voluntarily discrete», where such discretion is due to a well - founded fear of persecution.