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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Kanishka Singh

US report lists 'significant human rights' abuses in India

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators attend a protest against riots following clashes between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, March 3, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

The annual U.S. report on human rights practices released on Monday listed "significant human rights issues" and abuses in India, including reported targeting of religious minorities, dissidents and journalists, the U.S. State Department said.

The findings come nearly a year after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some government, police and prison officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the Asian nation's rights record.

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