Press Releases
4/5/11: Vietnam: USCIRF Urges U.S. Government to Speak Out about Human Rights Defender, Name Vietnam CPC
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April 5, 2011
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges the U.S. government to speak out publicly on behalf of jailed human rights defender Cu Huy Ha Vu, who was found guilty and sentenced to seven years under vague national security laws for... Read More
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March 24, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) welcomed the UN Human Rights Council"s significant step away from the pernicious "defamation of religions” concept. Today, the Council adopted a resolution on religious... Read More
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March 8, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today noted the release of human rights lawyer and religious freedom advocate Nguyen Van Dai after serving his four-year sentence and urged the government of Vietnam to lift... Read More
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March 7, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. government should urge the government of Indonesia to protect the embattled Ahmadiyah religious community and to repeal laws prohibiting the Ahmadiyah community from manifesting their faith, said the U.S. Commission on... Read More
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March 2, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC - The tragic and brutal assassination today of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan"s cabinet Minister for Minority Affairs, was an "outgrowth of that country"s blasphemy law, which fuels extremism and violence rather than keeping the peace,... Read More
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February 24, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) welcomes the addition yesterday of two Iranian government officials to the executive order President Barack Obama signed on September 29, 2010 imposing sanctions for... Read More
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February 22, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is concerned with the acquittals of two of the three men charged with killing six Coptic Orthodox Christians and one Muslim security guard in the town of Naga Hammadi,... Read More
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February 1, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is now accepting applications for its 2011-2012 Joseph R. Crapa Fellowship Program. The application deadline is April 18, 2011.
The funded fellowships are... Read More
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January 21, 2011
Washington D.C. - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns the recent spate of attacks in Iraq against Shi"a Muslims commemorating Arbaeen, a Shi"a holiday commemorating the death of the Prophet"s grandson. On Thursday... Read More
1/19/11: Hu Jintao: Let Your People Go
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January 19, 2011
Washington, DC - As President Hu Jintao began his visit to the United States yesterday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges President Obama to raise the cases of prominent religious prisoners and human rights lawyers in... Read More