Unfortunately his close ties to the Petrashevsky social-democratic group who went on trial made him a target of government persecution.

These acts led to his being labeled a political dissident, for which he suffered government persecution.

Subsequently, he was forced to leave Czechoslovakia due to government persecution.

Many people did not sign up on these rolls because they feared government persecution if their ethnicity was formally entered into the system.

Second, Haitians who come here really do it to get away from government persecution.

He defended the Chilean church in its mission of solidarity with victims of government persecution.

In Réunion, all religions are freely practiced, without government persecution.

Many of them are in jail because of government persecution.

Nevertheless this defeat led to government persecution of local Protestants.

These supporters claimed that Cottrell was the innocent victim of government persecution.