USCIRF News Digest

        Source:             www.uscirf.gov
Date:                  February 7, 2020

USCIRF News Digest - February 7, 2020

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Top News from Around the World

 Azerbaijan  
 Religious activist detained (Turan)

 Burma
 UN takes no action on order against Myanmar on Rohingya (Associated Press)

 China
 ‘Admit Your Mistakes, Repent’: China Shifts Campaign to Control Xinjiang’s Muslims (WSJ)

 Egypt
 Al-Karm Copts go back on their testimony against those who burned their homes (Watani)
 Egypt Detains Christian Past Jail Sentence (ICC)

 India
 Centre: Assam was told to free non-Muslims from camps (The Times of India) 

 Indonesia
 Conservative West Java Muslims seek interfaith festival ban (UCA News)
 New Christian-Muslim Political Alliances? (Providence)

 Iran
 Fatemeh Mohammadi reported detained in Tehran prison as Trump highlights arrest (Article 18)

 Iraq
 Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: January (ICC)
Malaysia
 Cardinal Ayuso: Human fraternity, a “rich mixed salad” not “melting pot” (Herald)
Montenegro
 Religious freedom comes to Europe’s second-newest nation. But Christians are concerned. (Christianity Today)
 Syria
 Christians in northeast Syria living in fear as Turkish forces, IS group active in region (France24)

 Turkey 
 Turkey converts yet another ancient Greek church into a mosque (Greek City Times)

 Other
 Criminalizing ‘Matters of the Soul’: New Alliance to Target Blasphemy and Apostasy Laws (CNS News)