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In its latest report, the USCIRF said the organisations should be held accountable for their “responsibility and tolerance of severe religious freedom violations”.
To enforce this, the commission recommended targeted sanctions, including the freezing of personal or organisational assets and the imposition of US travel bans on individuals or entities found responsible.
The US commission also urged the US State Department to designate India as a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ (CPC), a classification reserved for nations whose governments engage in or tolerate “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” violations of religious freedom under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).
According to the report, religious freedom conditions in India “continued to deteriorate” throughout 2025. It alleged that authorities introduced and enforced legislation that disproportionately targeted religious minorities and their places of worship.
“Several states undertook efforts to introduce or strengthen anti-conversion laws with harsher prison sentences,” the report said. It also alleged that authorities facilitated widespread detention and illegal expulsion of citizens and religious refugees, while vigilante attacks against religious minorities were tolerated.