Persecution

Persecution, implies a failure by the State to make protection available against the ill-treatment or violence which the person suffers at the hands of his persecutors, Horvath v. Home Secretary [HL(E)], (2000) 3 WLR 379.Persecution, is most appropriately defined as the sustained or systemic failure of State protection in relation to one of the core entitlements which has been recognised by the international community, Law of Refugee Status (1991), p. 112.Persecution, is normally related to action by the authorities of a country. It may also emanate from sections of the population that do not respect the standards established by the laws of the country concerned. A case in point may be religious intolerance, amounting to persecution, in a country otherwise secular, but where sizable fractions of the population do not respect the religious beliefs of their neighbours. Where serious discriminatory or other offensive acts are committed by the local populace, they can be considered as pers...

Persecution, on account of membership in a particular social group

Persecution, on account of membership in a particular social group, to mean persecution 'that is directed toward an individual who is a member of a group of persons all of whom share common immutable characteristic, Reg. v. I.A.T. Exp. Shah [H.L.(E)], (1999) 2 WLR 1015....

persecution

persecution : punishment or harassment usually of a severe nature on the basis of race, religion, or political opinion in one's country of origin [claimed and sought asylum] ...

refugee

refugee : an individual seeking refuge or asylum ;esp : an individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or unable to return to it because of persecution or fear of persecution (as because of race, religion, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion) ...

Insectation

The act of pursuing pursuit harassment persecution...

Victimized

Victimized, ordinarily a person is victimised, if he is made a victim or a scapegoat and is subjected to persecution, prosecution or punishment for no real fault or guilt of his own, in the manner, as it were, of a sacrificial victim, Messrs Bharat Iron Works v. Bhagubhai Balubhai Patel, AIR 1976 SC 98 (101): (1976) 1 SCC 518: (1976) 2 SCR 280....

Paranoid schizophrenia

Paranoid schizophrenia, in the vast majority of cases, starts in the fourth decade and develops insidiously. Suspiciousness is the characteristic symptom of the early stage. Ideas of reference occur, which gradually develops into delusions of persecution. Auditory hallucinations follow, which in the beginning, start as sound or noises in the ears, but are afterwards changes into abuses or insults. Delusions are at first indefinite, but gradually they become fixed and definite, to lead the patient to believe that he is persecuted by some unknown person or some superhuman agency. He believes that his food is being poisoned. Some noxious gases are blown into his room, and people are plotting against him to ruin him. Disturbances of general sensation given rise to hallucinations, which are attributed to the effects of hypnotism, electricity wireless telegraphy or atomic agencies. The patient gets very irritate and excited owing to these painful and disagreeable hallucinations and delusions...

Boycott

Boycott, a cant term meaning to shun, ignore and refuse to have any dealings whatsoever with a person. The word is derived from the name of an estate agent in County Mayo, Captain Boycott, one of the first persons to whom this species of persecution was applied....

Persecution

The act or practice of persecuting especially the infliction of loss pain or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship...

paranoia

A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect systematized delusion and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called ldquocranksrdquo Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration and many have hallucinations esp of sight and hearing...

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