Group Ask Commission To Resist Hindu Nationalist Pressure
U.S.-based civil rights, faith groups and advocates have condemned a federal commission being pressured to dilute its reporting on religious persecution in India.
In a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF, these groups and individuals urged it to withstand pressure from U.S.-based Hindu nationalists.
The letter contends certain parties are attempting to influence USCIRF’s commissioners and officials.
Who have been urged to exclude any mention of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi or his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party from the commission’s latest report.
The letter’s signatories recommended the U.S. State Department designate India as a “country of particular concern.”
That’s the harshest label for the world’s worst persecutors of religious minorities.
USCIRF’s annual report cataloging the state of religious freedom worldwide will be released April 25.
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