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US adds Wagner mercenaries to blacklist for religious persecution

Russia's Wagner Group was designated for alleged involvement in abuses in Central African Republic [File: Igor Russak/Reuters]

The United States has added Latin American adversaries Cuba and Nicaragua as well as Russia’s Wagner Group to a blacklist on international religious freedom, opening the path to potential sanctions.

“Around the world, governments and non-state actors harass, threaten, jail, and even kill individuals on account of their beliefs,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Friday.

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