US panel wants India on religious-freedom blacklist
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has ‘allowed violence against minorities and their houses of worship to continue with impunity, and also engaged in and tolerated hate speech and incitement to violence’, says the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. – AFP pic, April 29, 2020.
A US government panel yesterday called for India to be put on a religious-freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp rebuttal from New Delhi. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom recommends but does not set policy, and there is virtually no chance the State Department will follow its lead on India, an increasingly close American ally.
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