Nigeria has been taken out from the United States’ rundown of Religious violators.
This is as the American government has included Russia, China and eight different nations in its blacklists “as Countries of Particular Concern for having occupied with or endured ‘precise, progressing, and grievous infringement of strict opportunity.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this known in a press briefing on Wednesday named, ‘Religious Freedom Designations’.
While the U.S. had in 2020 put Nigeria and six different nations on its extraordinary watch list of states that had occupied with or endured the serious infringement of religious opportunity, Nigeria was absent from the list of nations assigned in the 2021 rundown for religious infringement.
The U.S. additionally assigned al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West Africa, Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and the Taliban as Entities of Particular Concern.
Blinken, who is as of now in East African country Kenya on an authority visit, is planned to genuinely visit Nigeria this week and meet with President Muhammadu Buhari, and different individuals from his cabinet.
The US Secretary of State, in his assertion on Wednesday, said, ““The United States will not waiver in its commitment to advocate for freedom of religion or belief for all and in every country. In far too many places around the world, we continue to see governments harass, arrest, threaten, jail, and kill individuals simply for seeking to live their lives in accordance with their beliefs. This Administration is committed to supporting every individual’s right to freedom of religion or belief, including by confronting and combating violators and abusers of this human right.”
“Every year the Secretary of State has the obligation to recognize legislatures and non-state actors, who, due to their religious opportunity infringement, merit assignment under the International Religious Freedom Act.
“I’m assigning Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Eritrea, Iran, the DPRK, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern for having occupied with or endured “systematic, progressing, and terrible infringement of religious opportunity.
“I’m likewise setting Algeria, Comoros, Cuba, and Nicaragua on a Special Watch List for states that have occupied with or tolerated “extreme infringement of religious opportunity.” “At last, I am assigning al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West Africa, Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and the Taliban as Entities of Particular Concern.” He said.
