Perhaps we fear victimization.

Depenalisation of drug users (as opposed to drug dealers) should be obligatory.

Mao set off yet another wave of persecutions in 1968.

(i) To ensure that human rights defenders are protected from abuses, threats and harassment

But the Rohingya people have long faced persecution in Buddhist majority Myanmar.

What are a country s obligations to refugees fleeing from persecution, poverty, or strife elsewhere?

The worst approach would be to marginalize or even persecute the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam again.

Are ordinary Russians showing solidarity with a victim unjustly hounded by the British Crown Prosecution Service?

In fact, at recent guideline meetings in the United Kingdom on the issue of ECT, there have been no representatives from psychiatry, but many from patient groups. Organized psychiatry appears to have little interest in ECT, or is scared of harassment from patient advocates.

Jewish persecution, and the way that Zionism has employed it, has become a model for Palestinian nationalism.

Organized psychiatry appears to have little interest in ECT, or is scared of harassment from patient advocates.

Unfortunately, the state s women still undergo eighteenth century sexual violence in many forms.

Several international organizations have spoken out against Jafarov's arrest and detention, as well as against the on going government crackdown on human rights activists in the country.

Rasul Jafarov is the fifth person to be prosecuted on these grounds in the last four months.

After three weeks of bullying, Makarevitch wrote an open letter to Vladimir Putin asking him to stop this Sabbath.

Elections have become a time when Internet censorship, online harassment, and the deliberate spread of misinformation escalate.

And the tide of harassment is rising in both Russia and France, as both nations prepare to choose their next leader.

Slobodan Milosevic cheated justice, and by doing so demonstrated the futility of attempting to deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity through international prosecutions.

Perhaps as a result, numerous independent journalists have experienced harassment and physical threats while on assignment in recent weeks.

Manning will face a new set of challenges now that she is released, as she has become a high profile person for whom harassment and threats of violence are expected to increase.

I spoke to a hairdresser who was raped because she is Christian. I heard the story of a liquor store owner whose one year old son was kidnapped and beheaded.

In Amman, Damascus, Istanbul, and Beirut I met dozens of people who have a well founded fear of persecution in their home country.

Fixing the problem requires full cooperation from clinicians, but this requires ending their fear of litigation.

He got especially engrossed in the case of Aleksey Gaskarov, who, Campbell says, was targeted specifically for being affiliated with the leftist activist movement.

An open letter urging China President Xi Jinping to resign has triggered a rash of political persecution against the family members of Chinese dissidents living abroad.

Large as the number of such arrests and prosecutions is, the true extent of the government's suppression of independent thought and activity is even greater. Most members of the Falun Gong and other unauthorized religions are arrested and tried for using an evil cult to sabotage implementation of the law a crime categorized as disturbing the social order.

Large as the number of such arrests and prosecutions is, the true extent of the government's suppression of independent thought and activity is even greater.

Bjørndalen lay in third place in the standings going into the last three races of the season in Holmenkollen, with Poirée in first, and Fischer in second.

(e) The cases of summary or arbitrary execution, disappearance, torture, harassment, unlawful arrest, widespread persecution and arbitrary detention for long periods

For decades, most Arabs, however unhappy, kept their political grievances private, for fear of persecution if they turned against their leaders publicly.

A new wave of protests has spread across Macedonia, in reaction to Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov's pardon shielding government officials accused of corruption and abuses of power from prosecution.

Her main demand was the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), which grants government forces de facto impunity in their bid to rein in militants and separatists working in the region.

But the wave of prosecutions that Xi has unleashed is discouraging Chinese officials from making decisions, owing to their fear that they could face criminal charges in the future.

(vii) The difficulties encountered by United Nations and humanitarian staff in carrying out their mandate because of harassment, indiscriminate aerial bombings and the reopening of hostilities

At some point, they all left Azerbaijan out of fear of persecution, and found refuge next door in relatively democratic Georgia's elegant, tumbledown capital, Tbilisi.

Through the introduction of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, war, persecution and intermarriage, the population dwindled to 300 by 1833.

Mass migration gave millions of Europeans an escape route from poverty and persecution, and fed the dynamism and development of countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and various colonies.

In another time, we knew about persecution and cruelty by the state in , and thus as Chileans and artists we take the duty to demand immediate release and the observation of the human rights of a man whose rights have been violated.

Alongside many one off incidents of identity based harassment online, one case has stood out as a upsetting example of how networked technologies can be used to target specific groups.

Yet America's Supreme Court has set standards so high for American firms to be found guilty of predation that few cases are successfully prosecuted domestically.

(iii) The arbitrary arrest and detention without trial of political opponents, human rights defenders and journalists, in particular, as well as acts of intimidation and harassment against the population by the security organs

Escaping persecution by the military dominated government, many Rohingyas have crossed borders to seek shelter and work in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

In March, the media freedom organization Article19 Mexico released their 2016 report in which they documented 426 incidents of journalist repression, including physical attacks, legal threats and attacks via digital means.

The recent abduction of Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarli, who moved to Georgia with his wife and daughter in 2015 fearing persecution in his native town of Zaqatala, attests to this.

The ICTY s first chief prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, called for condemnation of ethnic persecution in order to enable all sides to transcend identity politics and move towards a more liberal political order.