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US watchdog says Afghanistan belongs on religious freedom blacklist

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom also recommended the State Department designate Syria as a "country of particular concern" and place Egypt, Iraq and Turkey on a special watchlist for religious freedom offenders.
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Religious freedom conditions in Afghanistan have sharply deteriorated in the eight months since US troops withdrew from the country and the Taliban swept to power, a government watchdog said Monday. 

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan advisory body that monitors global religious freedom, recommended that the State Department categorize Afghanistan under the Taliban’s de facto government as a “country of particular concern.”

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