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A bipartisan watchdog committee has for the first time urged the U.S. State Department to include Azerbaijan on its list of the world's worst religious freedom violators.
Over the past year the federal government’s global religious freedom watchdog has noticed an increase in religious intolerance, persecution, and discrimination around the world.
Some nations notorious for oppressing religious freedom at home also waged campaigns of repression against ethnic and religious minorities living abroad in 2023, the U.S. Commission on International and Religious Freedom warned in its latest annual report.
India criticises USCIRF for interference in its electoral process and propagandist accusations of religious freedom violations.
For the first time, all five Central Asian states are named in some fashion in the annual USCIRF report for violating religious freedoms.