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US commission: Cite Afghanistan for religious persecution

FILE - A Muslim man watches from his house after a shop was demolished in the area that saw communal violence during a Hindu religious procession on Saturday, in New Delhi's northwest Jahangirpuri neighborhood, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Authorities riding bulldozers razed a number of Muslim-owned shops in New Delhi before India's Supreme Court halted the demolitions Wednesday. In a wide-ranging report released on Monday, April 25, 2022, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom noted worsening conditions for India's religious minorities under its Hindu-nationalist government. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File) FILE - In this image from video, Zumret Dawut, a Uighur from China's far western Xinjiang region, holds documents she brought with her, at her new home in Woodbridge, Va., on Monday, June 15, 2020. Dawut says in China, she was forcibly sterilized for having a third child after being released from a Xinjiang detention camp. In a wide-ranging report released on Monday, April 25, 2022, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom noted the “detention of millions of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Chinese concentration camps.” (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, File) FILE - Taliban fighters pray the sunset Muslim prayer inside a supermarket, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Afghanistan should join a list of the “worst of the worst” violators of religious freedom in the wake of the Taliban's return to power, a U.S. advisory body is recommending to the State Department in its annual report released on Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) FILE - Women pray in a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Afghanistan should join a list of the “worst of the worst” violators of religious freedom in the wake of the Taliban's return to power, a U.S. advisory body is recommending to the State Department in its annual report released on Monday, April 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)