He knew what it was like to be persecuted for who you are and what you believe.

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The administration says it seeks assurance that detainees will not be persecuted or harmed if sent back home, but also that it does not track detainees once they have left Guantanamo.

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Although the welfare benefits it offers asylum-seekers are not the most generous in the European Union, British judges interpret the 1951 convention more liberally than others, by accepting that refugees can be persecuted by groups and not just states.

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last month said gay people should not be killed or persecuted, but he also stressed homosexuality should not be promoted either.

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Uganda's president has said gay people should not be killed or persecuted, as MPs continue to consider a controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

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More than 99 percent of my time on this issue is consumed by the difficult task of trying to convince policy makers that tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy should be celebrated rather than persecuted.

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Tax havens should be celebrated, not persecuted.

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Sultan Yildirim Bayezid, for instance, recognizing us as a potential national asset, invited Jews persecuted by King Charles VI into the empire to be resettled in Edirne and the Balkans.

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The right-wing conspiracy theory turns what should be a weakness into a strength: the more the prime minister is prosecuted, the more he seems persecuted.

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