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UN, US raise concerns over India's religion-based citizenship law

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Joining rights advocates who say the law is discriminatory against Muslims, the United States and the United Nations worry the legislation may be 'in breach of India's international human rights obligations'.

Joining rights advocates who say the law is discriminatory against Muslims, the United States and the United Nations worry the legislation may be "in breach of India's international human rights obligations".Modi's government did not implement the law following its 2019 passage as protests and sectarian violence broke out in New Delhi and elsewhere. Photo: AFP

Just weeks before Indian elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government has been pushing to implement the law, which makes it easier to get Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees from three Muslim-majority South Asian nations: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

"Respect for religious freedom and equal treatment under the law for all communities are fundamental democratic principles," the State Department spokesperson added in an email.

 

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