Just this week, the Chinese government responded to US sanctions against Chinese officials responsible in part for the persecution and internment of millions of Uyghurs by leveling its own sanctions against US officials, notably Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Marco Rubio, Rep. Chris Smith, and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback.
We urge the Department of State to accept USCIRF’s recommendation to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern this year.
Photo by Zen zeee on Unsplash On July 10, 2020, President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that the Hagia Sophia museum, despite its status on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, would be converted into an active mosque. Just last week, according to Al Jazeera, a Turkish court …
The United Christian Forum (UCF) recently revealed that violence against Christians in India has reached just over half of the nation’s states. Within the short span of the first six months of 2020, the pervasive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with an increase in the frequency of religiously motivated attacks against Indian Christians: …
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Just over the weekend, on July 12, 2020, it was announced that the government of Sudan has taken action to restore human rights and religious freedom for its citizens by eliminating discriminatory alcohol restrictions, abolishing apostasy laws, criminalizing female genital mutilation and cutting, and granting women travel rights.
In a positive turn of events, the United States Department of the Treasury announced today, July 9, that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a few government officials and one government entity for their role in the ongoing violations of human rights committed against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. …
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