The USCIRF advised that the US Department of Utter designate India as a “Country of Explicit Effort” for partaking in “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of non secular freedom”
TBS Snort
04 October, 2024, 06:55 pm
Final modified: 04 October, 2024, 07:04 pm
A United States federal govt price has flagged the alleged worsening of non secular freedom in India and called for it to be designated as a “Country of Explicit Effort”.
In its annual bid, the US Commission for International Non secular Freedom (USCIRF) advised that the US Department of Utter designate India as a “Country of Explicit Effort” for partaking in “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of non secular freedom”.
Authored by senior protection analyst Sema Hasan, the piece on India describes the usage of misinformation and disinformation — alongside side hate speech by govt officers — to incite violent attacks against non secular minorities and their places of cherish, the USCIRF stated in an announcement.
The Indian govt rejected the claims, disregarded the bid as “biased” and accused the USCIRF of selling a “motivated fable”.
“Our views on the usa Commission on International Non secular Freedom are successfully acknowledged. It is a biased organisation with a political agenda,” Indian international ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated in response to media queries on Thursday.
The US tell division has to this level refrained from accepting the USCIRF’s solutions.
“This bid highlights how, at some level of 2024, folks were killed, overwhelmed, and lynched by vigilante groups, non secular leaders were arbitrarily arrested, and homes and places of cherish were demolished. These events constitute in particular extreme violations of non secular freedom,” the USCIRF stated.
Starting with the earlier Manmohan Singh-led govt, India has continuously denied visas to USCIRF contributors to chat over with the country, citing “interference” in its internal affairs, it added.
India and diverse alternative Indian-American groups private within the past accused the USCIRF of biased, unscientific and agenda-pushed reporting to malign the country.
“It [the report] additional describes modifications to and enforcement of India’s prison framework to focal level on and disenfranchise non secular minorities, alongside side the Citizenship Amendment Act, a uniform civil code, and diverse alternative tell-stage anti-conversion and cow slaughter guidelines,” the USCIRF stated.
