The U.S. State Department has officially added Russia to its register of the world's "worst violators" of religious freedom, a list that includes Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and five other countries, the RFERL website reports today (November 17, 2021).
The U,S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) proposed in its annual report released on April 21 that Russia, India, Syria, and Vietnam be put on the "countries of particular concern" list, a category reserved for those countries that carry out "systematic, ongoing, and egregious" violations of religious freedoms.
On November 17, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that, of those four countries, he would be adding Russia to the list.
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