More Countries Are Named For Violation Of Religious Freedom (1/2)

The U.S. government's Commission on International Religious Freedom (C.I.R.F.) has issued its 2008 report on the countries it alleges are the worst violators of the right to worship freely.

The panel agrees with the State Department that Burma, China and Sudan are among the worst offenders, along with North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. But Commission chairman Michael Cromartie says his group has urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to add Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam to the list.

"The commission is convinced that the governments in these countries either have not halted repression or violence amounting to severe violations of freedom of religion, or at least they failed to punish those responsible for perpetuating such acts.

The panel traveled to Vietnam recently and met with government officials, as well as imprisoned religious leaders. They told commission member Leonard Leo that Vietnam's ethnic minority Buddhists and Protestants are often harassed, beaten, detained and arrested.

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美国国际宗教自由委员会（CIRF）公布了2008年的报告，列出一些它所谓的对自由信仰宗教权利侵害最严重的国家。

专门小组同意（美国）国务院（的报告）：缅甸，中国，苏丹位于最严重侵犯国之列。随后是朝鲜，厄立特里亚，伊朗，沙特阿拉伯和乌兹别克斯坦。但委员会的主席迈克尔·克罗马蒂说他的小组强烈要求国务卿康多莉扎• 赖斯在名单中加上巴基斯坦，土库曼斯坦和越南。

委员会确信这些国家的政府或者是没阻止镇压或暴力行为升级为严重的侵犯宗教信仰自由，或者至少没能处罚那些该为这类事件不断出现而负责的人。

最近，该小组前往越南，与被关押的宗教领袖和政府官员会面。他们告诉委员会成员列奥纳多·里欧，越南少数民族的佛教徒和新教徒经常被骚扰，殴打，拘留和逮捕。

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