And then there were nine. Secretary of State John Kerry announced July 28 that Turkmenistan has joined the State Department’s list of worst religious freedom offenders. The State Department’s Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) list had remained static since 2006, when eight countries — Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan — were designated as CPC.…
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