Katrina Lantos Swett: “We think that the application of sanctions directed at specific people implicated in human rights and religious freedom…”

Because we, of all people, know what happens when religious extremism is exported as terrorism, USCIRF urges our Government to prioritize religious freedom not only as a core human right, but a vital part of any security-driven…

The Administration seems intent on monitoring and controlling every aspect of our lives, while ignoring our most basic freedoms.

Any independent religious expression is targeted in China . . . unless practitioners of whatever faith basically submit to government-controlled religious organizations and religious worship, they are at risk of becoming a target.

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