Due to his membership of the Muslim Brotherhood, Bayanouni was imprisoned from 1975 to 1977.

A proposal was made to insert the phrase membership of a particular social group , which were used in the Convention relative to the Status of Refugees, after the words ethnic origin in paragraph 7.

No Chinese citizen, regardless of whether he or she is Han, Tibetan, Uighur, or Mongolian, can vote the ruling party out of power.

Our commitment to the people of Darfur is to set right all grievances and hostilities that befell any citizen, from whatever party, on the basis of justice and the rule of law .

According to the State party, if the army had forced the complainant to sign the card to prove his membership of EZLN, it would have kept it as evidence.

It has been roughly 300 years since religious people came to understand that being of a different faith, or being agnostic, did not disqualify one from public office.

The latter considered that the language requirement was not based on the customer's race, ethnic origin or the like , but for the purposes of communicating with its customers.

The poor fighters of the Free Syrian Army were dazzled by the gear of the ISIS combatants, which, compared with their own sad rifles, looked like something out of the video game Counter Strike. Gradually, they surrendered their sense of belonging to their homeland, and some began to belong to the killers.

On the day after the contract was published, Venezuelan diplomatic officials in Bogotá wrote to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Granada, requesting that the Los Monjes group of islets be excluded because they belonged to Venezuela rather than to my country.

Today, however, every Malaysian must declare a religious affiliation, which is registered with the government a requirement that has made it difficult for a Muslim to leave Islam without formalizing the change of status through the legal process.

First, in order to be eligible for refugee status, an individual must show that he or she has a well founded fear of persecution on the grounds of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion (article 1A (2)).

It also notes that the State party and its courts have not shown that punishing the author for his membership in Hanchongnyeon, in particular after its endorsement of the June 15 North South Joint Declaration (2000), was necessary to avert a real danger to the national security and democratic order of the Republic of Korea.

States parties should take the necessary steps to prevent questioning, arrests and searches which are in reality based solely on the physical appearance of a person, that person's colour or features or membership of a racial or ethnic group, or any profiling which exposes him or her to greater suspicion.

The principle of non refoulement is set down in article 33(1) of the Refugee Convention and prohibits States from expelling or returning a refugee where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion .