Critics say the controversial laws are misused all too often, to persecute minorities or settle scores.
To persecute them along with malicious defaulters would serve neither justice nor the economy.
He said authorities wanted to persecute him for his refusal to pay a bribe.
The entire U.S. justice system smells of a Stalinist repetition of court farce: PERSECUTE TILL PROVEN GUILTY.
And it should threaten to cut off diplomatic ties with any country that seeks to persecute Israeli soldiers.
The Egyptian government was told that if it did not begin to persecute their Jews, Germany would boycott Egyptian cotton.
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To persecute someone for - a Muslim, for killing, raping, torturing, or vandalizing the property of a non-Muslim or a dhimmi.
They mostly persecute small companies, seeing them as softer targets than multinationals.
The Left opposed the military's constitutional role as the overseer of Turkish democracy because the military used that role to persecute leftists.
And civil liberties groups also condemned the move, fearing the law could be used to persecute people and lead to miscarriages of justice.
That result, infamously, was never recognised by the junta, which has continued to persecute Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters ever since.
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The teen's case sparked international outcry against the Pakistani government, some saying the blasphemy laws are used to settle scores and persecute religious minorities.
The post-war ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, did not persecute the gypsies, at least no more than he exercised a rule of fear over all Romanians.
That blame should rather attach to the United Nations, which will always place national sovereignty above local lives, allowing dictators to persecute and murder those within their borders.
That is some of the claims that we get, that some of them were used to perpetrate and persecute them, and now you change your uniforms to come and protect them.
He also said the UN had a responsibility "to stand up against regimes that persecute their people" and singled out Yemen and Syria as being in need of reform.
That is the outcome that we will work for -- with sanctions and consequences for those who persecute, and assistance and support for those who work for this common good.
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The order sidesteps what many Arab human rights activists say is the use of similar Internet monitoring technologies by Arab allies of Washington to harass, arrest and persecute their own dissidents.
Socialist states, in practice, almost inevitably persecute Christians.
American leadership has been too silent while the Iranian government continues to imprison, persecute, and torture its own people because they have bravely and peacefully stood up to fight for the most basic freedoms.
So far, he notes, very little research has been carried out into why particular armed groups regard schools or even schoolchildren as legitimate targets or why so many governments persecute academics in their own universities.
The government in Khartoum appears to be using the Lord's Resistance Army the same way that it used militias, including the Janjaweed, in Darfur--to destabilize the region, to persecute those unsympathetic to the government's interests.
What the behavior of the likes of Rosenberg shows is that anti-Israel forces in the federal bureaucracy can depend on having an anti-Israel American Jewish amen corner backing any decision they take to persecute Israel's supporters.
Last month business leaders complained that Republicans were forsaking their interests to pander to the religious right: the party's leaders were caving in to religious demands for sanctions on countries that persecute Christians, so jeopardising access to big markets such as China.
Second, the fact that the AIPAC scandal unfolded during the Bush administration's tenure shows that even when administrations friendly to Israel are in office, a persistent, powerful group of bureaucrats in the federal government remains ready and able to persecute pro-Israel activists and policymakers.
The handgun ban has only served to persecute a minority group that was already extremely law-abiding , and to inflict a severe cost upon the taxpayer of this country to the detriment of other areas that would really benefit society such as hospitals and education.
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