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Allies of the Indian government are working to pressure the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to reverse its recommendation that the State Department label India as a “country of particular concern” for religious freedom violations, an activist warns.
John Prabhudoss, the chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations, spoke at a panel event Wednesday to discuss “India’s Designation as CPC” hosted by International Christian Concern.
The panel discussed the state of religious freedom in India and the need for the State Department to designate the world’s second-largest nation as a “country of particular concern” for engaging in or tolerating religious freedom violations.
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Designate India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’: Indian American Muslim Council to USCIRF
By Yunus Y Lasania| Published: 14th April 2021 7:31 pm IST
Hyderabad: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been urged by dozens of international civil rights organizations and hundreds of individuals, to recommend the US State Department and designate India as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) for “rapidly escalating persecution of religious minorities”.
In the letter sent on 12
th April to USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin and eight other Commissioners, the signees said, “the behaviour” of India’s federal and state governments is enabling violation of religious freedom. The violations had “spectacularly worsened” since last year, when USCIRF had the first recommendation that India be designated as CPC.
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