迫害

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 迫害 is read as はくがい and functions as a noun or with する for persecution or serious mistreatment directed at people for a stated reason.
• Basic usage: Victims appear in the passive 迫害される, while escaping the danger is expressed as 迫害を逃れる.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Serious oppression
  • The examples show people persecuted for their faith and a clan fleeing persecution, but they do not independently specify that the mistreatment was repeated or systematic.
• Object of 逃れる
  • The を in 迫害を逃れる marks the danger escaped, not a destination toward which someone moves.