U.S. commission cites religious freedom abuses, but India rejects findings
Religious freedom remains under “serious and sustained assault” around the globe, according to the recently released annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
“The incarceration of prisoners of conscience, including religious prisoners, remains astonishingly widespread,” said Robert P. George, chairman of the independent government advisory body.
He pointed to China, which has imprisoned some opposed to a state campaign to remove crosses from churches, and Iran’s majority-Shi’ite regime, where Sunnis, Christians, and Bahá’ís have been persecuted, imprisoned, and even sentenced to death on dubious charges. And in Pakistan more people are on death row or serving life sentences for blasphemy charges than in any other nation in the world.
