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Additional Name(s): Javid Maharram oglu Allahverdiyev Gender: Male Perpetrator: Azerbaijan Religion or Belief: Muslim – Shi'a…
Additional Name(s): Aslan Maharram oghlu Gasimov, Aslan Maharram oglu Qasimov Gender: Male Perpetrator: Azerbaijan Religion or Belief: Muslim – Shi'a…
Additional Name(s): Khayyam Aligulu oghlu Karimov Gender: Male Perpetrator: Azerbaijan Religion or Belief: Muslim – Shi'a…
May 1, 2024 USCIRF Releases 2024 Annual Report with New Recommendations for U.S. Policy Highlights State of Religious Freedom Abroad after 25 Years of IRFA Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today…
Highlights from USCIRF’s 2024 Annual Report Numbers-at-a-Glance 17 countries recommended for “country of particular concern” (CPC) designation 1 new country recommended for CPC designation 11 countries recommended for the State Department’s “Special…
Aug 2, 2024 Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic cleansing of Yazidis, Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac Christians, Shi’a and Sunni Muslim Turkmens,…
Aug 2, 2024 USCIRF Solemnly Commemorates the Tenth Anniversary of ISIS’s Genocide Against Iraqi and Syrian Religious Minorities Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) this week commemorates the…
Aug 9, 2024 Ten years ago, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a campaign of mass atrocities to achieve the religious and ethnic cleansing of religious minority groups in Iraq and Syria. In 2016, the U.S. State Department…
This report provides an overview of ISIS’s genocide and other crimes against Iraq’s religious minorities beginning in the summer 2014. ISIS used mass execution, forced conversion to Islam, abduction, rape, and slavery against Iraqi and Syrian Yazidis;…
Sep 30, 2024 USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Freedom Challenges in Iraq 10 Years After ISIS’s Genocide Washington, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released the following new report: Religious Freedom…