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‘Biased’: India disses US panel report that seeks targeted sanctions on RAW

The Indian government has usually reacted angrily to reports by USCIRF, an independent, bipartisan federal government entity established by the US Congress to monitor religious freedom abroad. (File)
Updated on Mar 26, 2025 11:01 pm IST

‘Malicious, agenda driven’: India rejects USCIRF report on religious freedom

External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. (Photo from X)
Updated on Mar 16, 2026 11:04 pm IST

India rejects ‘malicious report’ by US Commission on religious freedom abuses

External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (File Photo)
Updated on Oct 03, 2024 06:24 pm IST

‘It has no Hindu members’: Diaspora body on USCIRF's ‘biased’ reports on India

Representational Photo: In recent years, USCIRF has repeatedly expressed concern at the "deterioration" of human rights and religious freedom in India (TWITTER/@USCIRF.).
Published on May 18, 2024 09:06 am IST

‘Biased organisation’: MEA rejects USCIRF’s report on religious freedom in India

MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (Twitter Photo)
Published on May 02, 2024 06:57 pm IST

'Political propaganda': India blasts USCIRF, rejects report on religious freedom

External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal. (ANI Photo)
Published on May 02, 2024 06:01 pm IST

‘Regrettable’: US delegation forced to cut short Saudi visit over kippah row

A group of US diplomats ended their Saudi Arabia visit when the Jewish chair was asked to remove his kippah.
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 06:05 pm IST

'Biased, inaccurate': India slams US religious panel report on violations

Early on Saturday, the USCIRF’s official Twitter handle had quoted its commissioner David Curry as saying the commission is “concerned about the Indian government’s continued repression of critical voices – especially religious minorities and those reporting on and advocating for them”. (TWITTER/@USCIRF.)
Updated on Jul 02, 2022 08:30 pm IST

US panel wants Pakistan to be re-designated for religious freedom violations

The US panel has also highlighted the plight of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan.
Updated on May 05, 2020 07:51 am IST

‘Misrepresentation reached new levels’: India rebuffs US religious panel’s report

A man walks past slogans painted on discarded tin sheds near a site of the protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), at Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar in New Delhi in January 2020.
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 09:46 am IST

India slams USCIRF report claiming it targets minorities

The commission has recommended that the US designate India a “Country of Particular Concern” for “engaging in...religious freedom violations”
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 09:27 am IST

USCIRF says ‘troubled’ by denial of food to Pakistani Hindus, Christians amid Covid-19 crisis

Policewomen keep watch as women wait to collect cash through a bank under the Pakistan governmental Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme for families in need during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Karachi on April 13, 2020. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)
Updated on Apr 14, 2020 10:52 am IST

Global pressure over CAA-driven violence in India

The USCIRF has already convened a hearing in Washington on March 4 to discuss how the citizenship law is being “used to target religious minorities” in India.
Updated on Feb 28, 2020 07:13 am IST

US panel for sanctions over Citizenship Amendment Bill, India says it is biased

An Indian commando tries to stop as protesters block traffic during a shutdown protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in Gauhati, Tuesday on December 10.
Updated on Dec 11, 2019 06:49 am IST

‘CAB a dangerous turn in wrong direction,’ says US body

People from various social organisations stage a protest against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) at Gandhi Circle in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 10:09 pm IST

US commission seeks sanctions against Amit Shah if citizenship bill passed

A federal US commission on international religious freedom has said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill is a “dangerous turn in the wrong direction”
Updated on Dec 10, 2019 11:37 am IST

NRC in Assam targeting religious minorities: US commission on religious freedom

NRC was released on August 31, with over 1.9 million applicants failing to make it to the list.
Updated on Nov 16, 2019 01:51 pm IST

Religious freedom continued ‘downward trend’ in India in 2017: Report

People protest against cow lynchings in Ranchi.
Published on Apr 27, 2018 08:51 pm IST