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US religious freedom panel again recommends India for blacklist

An independent US panel again calls for President Joe Biden's administration to add India to a religious freedom blacklist, reserved for countries it accuses of 'systematic, ongoing [and] egregious violations' [Anupam Nath/Associated Press]

An independent commission in the United States has, for the fourth year in a row, recommended that India’s government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, be added to a religious freedom blacklist, saying that conditions in the country for religious minorities “continued to worsen” throughout 2022.

In its annual report on Monday, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) again called on the US Department of State to designate India as a “country of particular concern”.

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