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USCIRF News Digest - March 10, 2020

Source:             www.uscirf.gov

Date:                  March 10, 2020

 
USCIRF News Digest - March 10, 2020
 
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Top News from Around the World

Austria
2 youths attack Austrian Jewish teen wearing Star of David ring (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Canada
A Quebec Ban on Religious Symbols Upends Lives and Careers (New York Times)

China
China compels Uighurs to work in shoe factory that supplies Nike (The Washington Post)
China-made phones, tablets tainted by coerced Uighur labor (Associated Press)
Think-tank report on Uighur labor in China lists global brands (Reuters)
Some of World's Most Courageous Women Honored in Washington (Voice of America)
US Holocaust Museum Labels China’s Persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ (Radio Free Asia)
Tibetans in Nepal Urged Not to Observe March 10 Uprising Anniversary (Radio Free Asia)

France
Jewish Cemeteries Are Threatened. These People Are Guarding Them. (New York Times)

Germany
Thousands rally in Munich against far-right, racism, anti-Semitism (Deutsche Welle)

Iran
Convert gets two more years in prison for ‘Evangelical Zionist Christianity’ (Article Eighteen)

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Religious Education Still Unarranged (CABAR)

Nepal
Tibetans in Nepal Urged Not to Observe March 10 Uprising Anniversary (Radio Free Asia)

Nicaragua
U.S. sanctions Nicaragua police force over 'violent repression' (Reuters)
Daniel Ortega Mob Beats Sacristan in a Matagalpa, Nicaragua Church (Confidencial)

North Korea
NGOs Urge South Korean President Moon to Focus More on North Korean Human Rights (Radio Free Asia)

Romania