Katrina Lantos Swett: “USCIRF stands with Ms. Abedini and her family, has called repeatedly for the Pastor's release, and urges the U.S.…”

We are concerned that the designations that have been made in the past simply become... part of the wallpaper that nobody pays attention to.

We cannot entirely protect, we can't basically protect people in China or in any other country where they are being brutally repressed.

When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...

We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.