WASHINGTON, CMC – The Biden administration has designated Cuba, the one Caribbean nation, amongst 12 “nations of explicit concern for having engaged in or tolerated notably extreme violations of non secular freedom.”
The opposite nations with such designation are Burma, China, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
As well as, US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has designated Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam as “Particular Watch Checklist nations for participating in or tolerating extreme violations of non secular freedom.”
Blinken additionally designated al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS-Sahel, ISIS-West Africa, al-Qa’ida affiliate Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and the Taliban as “Entities of Specific Concern.”
“Advancing the liberty of faith or perception has been a core goal of US international coverage ever since Congress handed and enacted the Worldwide Non secular Freedom Act in 1998,” stated Blinken. “Vital violations of non secular freedom additionally happen in nations that aren’t designated.
“Governments should finish abuses equivalent to assaults on members of non secular minority communities and their locations of worship, communal violence and prolonged imprisonment for peaceable expression, transnational repression, and calls to violence towards spiritual communities, amongst different violations that happen in too many locations all over the world,” he added.
Blinken stated the challenges to spiritual freedom throughout the globe are “structural, systemic, and deeply entrenched.”
However he stated, “With considerate, sustained dedication from these unwilling to simply accept hatred, intolerance, and persecution as the established order, we’ll someday see a world the place all individuals reside with dignity and equality.”
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