Hours after the United States launched its annual report on religious freedom (2022 Report on International Religious Freedom: India) which listed assaults in opposition to religious minorities together with Muslims and Christians, social media customers reached out to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) searching for the federal government response over the report.
Seeking MEA response over the religious freedom report, famous media character Suhasini Haidar has stated only one month earlier than a state go to by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US State Department has releasd a report on religious freedom, referring to ruling social gathering for greater than 20 incidents of violence, intimidation of minorities in India.
“1 month earlier than it is going to host PM Modi to US for a State Visit, US State Department releases a scathing report on religious freedom, refers to ruling social gathering for greater than 20 incidents of violence, intimidation of minorities in India… Awaiting MEA response,”Suhasini Haidar tweeted.
The State Department report talks in regards to the assaults on members of religious minority communities, together with killings, assaults, and intimidation in numerous states all year long. These included incidents of “cow vigilantism” in opposition to non-Hindus based mostly on allegations of cow slaughter or commerce in beef and incidents through which Muslim males had been alleged to have married Hindu girls to transform them. There had been additionally instances of communal violence between religious teams.
The report additional stated 13 of 28 states have legal guidelines proscribing religious conversions for all faiths. Some of these states additionally impose penalties particularly in opposition to pressured religious conversions for the aim of marriage though traditionally, some state excessive courts have dismissed instances introduced below these legal guidelines.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whereas presenting the report, didn’t point out India as he voiced alarm by actions by authorities in China, Iran, Myanmar and Nicaragua.
New Delhi has lengthy hit again at American criticism on religious freedom, significantly by the autonomous US Commission on International Religious Freedom, which earlier this month as soon as once more beneficial that the State Department put India on a blacklist over its report.
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