Nevertheless it has not been clarified till today, why it took still 15 years to abolish legal persecution and discrimination.

However, in the time of legal persecution the number of secret chambers and hiding-places increased in the houses of the old Catholic families.

But let us not flatter ourselves that we are yet free from the stain even of legal persecution.

They said that the developers behind Bengali computing happened to work under threat of legal persecution and law enforcing agencies.

Following his death, and until 1204, the Jews suffered only three notable legal persecutions, the sum of whose span was roughly fifty years.

Accordingly, there were no recorded legal persecutions of the Jews for nearly two and a half centuries following his reign.

In other cases, minorities were subject to legal and extra-legal persecution and their only option was immigration to their ancestral home country.

The legal persecution against the confederates initiated in October 1824 and lasted until April 1825.

Those labeled as atheist, including early Christians and Muslims, were as a result targeted for legal persecution.