persecution

The press secretary said Biden had pardoned his son, who was facing sentencing later this month in two federal cases, to shield him from potential persecution by the outgoing president's political foes.

That sense of persecution is what all of the Trump nominees for law enforcement, intelligence and military institutions share.

On Monday judges called this a crime against humanity and said the kidnappings were "an inhumane act of persecution".

Whatever Pratt imagined for Indian schools as an answer to Indian persecution, the schools became, in the early decades especially, places of repression, punishment, and occasional savagery.

Another refugee said: "The arrests are unjustified, and our lives are in danger. We fled persecution in Eritrea, only to face it here."