On April 29, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom released its 2019 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. The 234-page report recommends that 16 countries be designated as "countries of particular concern" because of their "systematic, ongoing, egregious violations" of religious freedom. Ten of those are already designated as CPC's by the State Department-- Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. The six recommended additions are Central African Republic, Nigeria, Russia, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. USCIRF also placed 12 countries on its "Tier 2" list for less serious violations of religious liberty. The report details the conditions in each of these 28 nations.
Additionally the Report recommends five non-state entities be designated "entities of particular concern" because of their suppression of religious freedom. Also USCIRF makes various policy recommendations to the Administration and to Congress.
