USCIRF News Digest

        Source:             www.uscirf.gov
Date:                  January 31, 2020

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USCIRF News

 USCIRF Condemns Iranian Government Measures Targeting Baha’is

 USCIRF Welcomes Passage of the Tibetan Policy and Support Act in House of Representatives

 USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in Saudi Arabia

 USCIRF Releases New Report on Religious Freedom Conditions in Uzbekistan

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Top News from Around the World

 China
 Bill to Support Tibet Wins Strong Approval in US House of Representatives (RFA)
 Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter. (NYT)

 Egypt
 US Embassy in Cairo Funds Restoration of World’s Second Oldest Jewish Cemetery (Egypt Independent)

 Iran
 Iran’s regime ramps up violent persecution of Baha’i community (Jerusalem Post)

 Montenegro
 Tensions rise in Montenegro after Protesters Clash with Police (Balkan Insight)

 Saudi Arabia
 Saudi Crackdown on Dissent Violates Kingdom’s International Legal Obligations (Just Security)

 Turkey
 Election of Patriarch Leaves Turkey’s Armenians without a Voice (Eurasianet)
 Turkey Offers Alevis a Sunni State (Ahval)

 Uzbekistan
 Review: The Vanishing Generation, by Bagila Bukharbayeva (Eurasianet)

USCIRF News Digest - January 31, 2020