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Apr 25, 2022
This op-ed was originally published by The Hill on April 25, 2022.
By USCIRF Chair Nadine Maenza and Vice Chair Nury Turkel
As the world is trying to resume some semblance of normalcy, it is abundantly clear that…
Additional Name(s):
Дадаш Мәженовтің
Gender:
Male
Current Location:
ZK-169/1 Prison, Kyzylorda
Perpetrator:
Kazakhstan
Religion or Belief:…
This factsheet highlights the global scale of religious persecution by providing an overview of contexts where large populations have been displaced due to persecution or violence based on religion or belief, including in Afghanistan, Burma, the Central…
Gender:
Male
Perpetrator:
Iraq
Religion or Belief:
Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment:
May//2022…
Gender:
Male
Perpetrator:
Iraq
Religion or Belief:
Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment:
May//2022…
Aug 3, 2022
USCIRF Commemorates the Eighth Anniversary of the Yazidi Genocide
Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today joined communities around the world in…
Sep 16, 2022
In 2018, Kazakhstan arrested a group of men for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam and sentenced them to multiple years in prison on fictitious terrorism and incitement-related charges. Last fall,…
Additional Name(s):
Anatoli Pavlovich Zernichenko
Gender:
Male
Current Location:
Investigation Prison No. 11, Shymkent
Perpetrator:
Kazakhstan…
Nov 4, 2022
Since 2014, when ISIS launched its genocidal campaign against the Yazidis—a minority ethno-religious group within the Kurdish-majority areas of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey, as well as in Armenia–hundreds of…
Tolerance, Religious Freedom, and Authoritarianism – This report details how authoritarian states promote religious tolerance without necessarily ensuring freedom of religion or belief. It distinguishes between these two concepts and explains the…