US REPORT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN INDIA | US commission seeks sanctions on India
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Religious freedom has deteriorated "significantly" in India under Hindu nationalist government in annual report 2022 of US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has urged State Department for the third straight year to place India on US list of “countries of particular concern”. The independent bipartisan panel accused India of “engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom”. The report highlights that during the year, Indian government escalated its promotion and enforcement of policies including those promoting a Hindu-nationalist agenda that negatively affect Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Dalits and other religious minorities. “The government continued to systemize its ideological vision of a Hindu state at both the national and state levels through the use of both existing and new laws and structural changes hostile to the country’s religious minorities.” The USCIRF accused India of repressing human rights defenders from religious minorities. The commission hit out against Indian government over a citizenship law that fast-tracks naturalization for non-Muslims, calling it “discriminatory”, while also slamming anti-religious conversion laws that it said target interfaith marriages in some states. The report further elaborates that “Government action, including the continued enforcement of anti-conversion laws against non-Hindus, has created a culture of impunity for nationwide campaigns of threats and violence by mobs and vigilante groups, including against Muslims and Christians accused of conversion activities.” US government should impose targeted sanctions on individuals and entities responsible for severe violations of religious freedom by freezing those individuals’ or entities’ assets and/or barring their entry into the United States.

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