Sec. 5. Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
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(1)of section 102(b) of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6412(b)) is amended— in subparagraph (A)— in clause (iii), by striking and at the end; in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new clause: any action taken by a government or other entity to censor religious content, communications, or worship activities online, including descriptions of the targeted religious group, the content, communication, or activities censored, the means used, and government or other entity engaged in such online censorship activities. ; in subparagraph (B), in the matter preceding clause (i)— by inserting persecution of lawyers, politicians, or other human rights advocates seeking to defend targeted religious groups or highlight religious freedom violations, prohibitions on ritual animal slaughter or male infant circumcision, after entire religions, ; and by inserting policies that ban or restrict the public manifestation of religious belief and the peaceful involvement of religious groups or their members in the political life of each such foreign country, after such groups, ; in subparagraph (C)— by striking A description and inserting A comprehensive description ; by striking policies in support and inserting religious engagement policies in support ; and by adding at the end before the period the following: , and a unique, comprehensive, and country-specific analysis of the impact of actions by the United States on the status of religious freedom in each such country. ; and in subparagraph (F), by adding at the end the following new clause: A list, to be known as the Special Watch List , which shall identify any country or violent nonstate actor that has engaged in or tolerated systematic, egregious, or ongoing violations of religious freedom during the previous reporting year but which the Secretary determines does not meet, at the time of the publication of the Annual Report, the criteria for designation as a country of particular concern for religious freedom under section 402(b)(1). .
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Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
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