Other Images in this Gallery
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The ruins of Sinjar massacre marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State. (Photo: Levi Clancy)
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This child was at a rally in Ottawa calling for an end to the Uyghur genocide and organized by the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project. (Photo: JuanFrancois | Dreamstime.com)
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More than one million Rohingya have fled Myanmar since the early 1990s. Members of the small Muslim minority in a largely Buddhist country are persecuted and have been stripped of their citizenship. (Photo: Seyyed Mahmoud Hosseini, Tasnim News Agency)
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Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has arrested those calling for more freedom of religion and speech in the Maldives. (Photo: Asimoosa)
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The part-Jewish cemetery at Yazd in Iran: Jews find themselves living in a constant state of anxiety, never sure how the mullah might limit their religion. Worse off are the Baha’is, who are persecuted, sent to jail and banned from access to higher education. (Photo: Taeedxy)
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Before the war in Syria, pictured here, Christians represented 10 per cent of the Syrian population. They now account for 5 per cent, many having fled the country to avoid service in al-Assad’s military. (Photo: Kevorkmail)
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This Humvee was overturned in a clash between Iraqi and IS forces. IS’s seizure of Mosul led to an exodus of Christians. Those who didn’t leave were forced to convert on pain of death. (Photo: Omar Siddeeq Yousif)
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The Algerian government treats the few religious minorities as threats that must not be allowed to “shake the faith of Muslims.’’ This photo depicts a Christian family from Kabylia. (Photo: wiki)
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Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Turkey for being an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia’s current regime. (Photo: April Brady, POMED)
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(Photo: PEW Research center)
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