News Room USCIRF In the News 4/29/2011: Panel blacklists Egypt for religious oppression - Washington Times
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By Ashish Kumar Sen Egypt systematically oppresses Christians and minority Muslim sects, according to a congressional commission that placed a key U.S. ally in the Arab world on a blacklist of nations that routinely abuse religious liberties.
Egypt, for the first time, was designated a “country of particular concern” for the “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its annual report released Thursday. Tags: |
