India has turned down a travel request for members of a U.S. government panel seeking to review its religious freedom, saying such foreign agencies had no standing to assess the constitutional rights of citizens.
FILE PHOTO: Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar attends a panel during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
The call by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was made in an April report urging sanctions against officials of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government after it excluded minority Muslims from a new citizenship law. “We have also denied visas to USCIRF teams that have sought to visit India in connection with issues related to religious freedom,” he told a lawmaker from Modi’s ruling group in a June 1 letter.
Reuters has reviewed a copy of the letter to Nishikant Dubey, an MP who had raised the issue of the panel’s report in parliament.
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