State Department Issues Report On Religious Persecution.The U.S. State A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and Department issued its first annual Report on International Religious Freedom, documenting harsh treatment of religious groups in 194 countries. The report is the first to be published through the new International Religious Freedom Act, passed with bipartisan support in Congress last year. Under the guidelines created by Congress, the most egregious offenders of religious freedom, including countries that engage in torture and imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. , may be subject to economic sanctions Economic sanctions are economic penalties applied by one country (or group of countries) on another for a variety of reasons. Economic sanctions include, but are not limited to, tariffs, trade barriers, import duties, and import or export quotas. . Afghanistan, China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Sudan were listed as among the most oppressive countries. Robert Seiple, the State Department's ambassador at large ambassador at large n. pl. ambassadors at large An ambassador who is not assigned to a specific country. for international religious freedom, presented the 1,000-page report to the media Sept. 9. The report, Seiple said, will "signal unambiguously to persecutor and persecuted alike that they will not be forgotten." |
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