USCIRF Annual Report 2015 (2)

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Commissioners Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett Chair Dr. Robert P. George Dr. James J. Zogby Vice Chairs Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser Dr. Daniel I. Mark Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Hon. Hannah Rosenthal Hon. Eric P. Schwartz Ambassador David N. Saperstein, ex officio, non-voting member Ambassador Jackie Wolcott Executive Director
Professional Staff Judith E. Golub, Director of Government and Media Relations Paul Liben, Executive Writer Knox Thames, Director of Policy and Research Dwight Bashir, Deputy Director for Policy and Research Elizabeth K. Cassidy, Deputy Director for Policy and Research Sahar Chaudhry, Senior Policy Analyst Catherine Cosman, Senior Policy Analyst Tiffany Lynch, Senior Policy Analyst Tina L. Mufford, Policy Analyst Thomas Kraemer, Manager of Administration Kalinda M. Stephenson, Government and Media Relations Associate Travis Horne, Government and Media Relations Assistant U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom 732 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite A714 Washington, DC 20401 202–523–3240 (phone) 202–523–5020 (fax) www.uscirf.gov
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Page 7 and 8: Humanitarian crises fueled by waves
Page 9 and 10: In both nations, the rule of a stro
Page 11 and 12: USCIRF TIER 1 & TIER 2 COUNTRIES Ti
Page 13 and 14: IRFA defines “particularly severe
Page 15 and 16: the Ambassador-at-Large for Interna
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Page 19 and 20: Along with an annual CPC process, t
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Page 23 and 24: • increasing detainees’ access
Page 25 and 26: OSCE office in Baku cooperated with
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Page 31 and 32: BURMA 26 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 201
Page 33 and 34: of those who have spoken publicly a
Page 35 and 36: The United States provides a variet
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Page 39 and 40: on his postings on Sina Weibo, a po
Page 41 and 42: societies or weird religious organi
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Page 45 and 46: Lutherans, Baptists, Presbyterians,
Page 47 and 48: in 22 CFR 126.1(a), USCIRF recommen
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Page 51 and 52: charged many of these reformers wit
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Russia, United Kingdom, United Stat
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NORTH KOREA 50 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPO
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and religion, as well as of the rig
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Recommendations With the attention
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SAUDI ARABIA 56 USCIRF | ANNUAL REP
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of Islam, and maintain the country
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from three to 20 years. The Interio
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Recommendations USCIRF urges the U.
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SUDAN 64 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 201
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Religious Freedom Conditions 2014-2
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States remains the world’s larges
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TURKMENISTAN 70 USCIRF | ANNUAL REP
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support; forbids worship in private
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the country has allowed U.S. flight
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UZBEKISTAN 76 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPOR
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government also maintains an extens
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82 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 84 USCIRF
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a year of violence between Muslims
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EGYPT 88 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 201
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erhood members and other Islamists,
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freedom. Several problematic provis
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IRAQ 94 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 2015
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ights and religious freedom in Iraq
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Research Service February 2015 repo
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NIGERIA 100 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT
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Although the 1999 constitution prov
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structures damaged or destroyed. Ra
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Despite problems of sectarian viole
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PAKISTAN 108 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT
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in positions of influence, as the i
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anniversary of Pakistan’s second
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SYRIA 114 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 20
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total population; Druze were about
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and beyond. In January 2015, Reuter
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TAJIKISTAN 120 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPO
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that “Tajikistan is the only coun
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and Sayidmumin Rashidov for teachin
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VIETNAM 126 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT
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violated the terms of reference agr
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Prisoners The ill-treatment and imp
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AFGHANISTAN 134 USCIRF | ANNUAL REP
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lasphemous. The newspaper issued an
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AZERBAIJAN 138 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPO
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September 2014 for a “totally una
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prison; they face up to a five-year
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CUBA 144 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 201
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outside Cuba, and conduct charitabl
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INDIA 148 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 20
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the reporting period (discussed mor
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of wrongdoing. In 2015, high-rankin
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INDONESIA 154 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPOR
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250 million people. Approximately 1
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Jakarta Post, for publishing what s
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KAZAKHSTAN 160 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPO
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the state-backed Muslim Board were
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ole in nuclear security; in 1991, P
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LAOS 166 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 201
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Abuses against Minorities Discrimin
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MALAYSIA 170 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT
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calling on leaders to debate the re
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The rise of Islamic law and the Sha
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RUSSIA 176 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 2
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defines extremism in a religious co
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Violations in the North Caucasus Hu
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groups in a new U.S.-Russia Bilater
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TURKEY 184 USCIRF | ANNUAL REPORT 2
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of Western Europe. They are able to
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OTHER COUNTRIES MONITORED - BAHRAIN
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held high-level security officials
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and only a small percentage of elig
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official registration, failing to u
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Between January 2013 and May 2014,
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proposals would increase the maximu
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seemed to blame the Muslim victims.
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Dr. Robert P. George, Vice Chair Ro
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In the wake of the 9/11 attacks on
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Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open
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NAME AGE AT ARREST SEX LOCATION DAT
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Individuals sentenced to life in pr
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Religious activists arrested with j
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Cases of those arrested for partici
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Religious freedom/Human rights defe
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of narcotics or psychotropic substa
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son fled to the United Sates on Jan
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Chinese authorities believe it is i
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from his residence and transported
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threatened with death, beaten, and
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