Sec. 104. Prisoner lists and issue briefs on religious freedom concerns
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Section 108 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 ( 22 U.S.C. 6417 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— in the heading, by striking and inserting Sense of the Congress ; and Policy statement on diplomatic advocacy for prisoners of conscience by striking it is the sense of the Congress that officials of the executive branch of Government should promote and inserting it shall be the policy of the United States Government that all officials of the executive branch, including the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom, and State Department officials from regional bureaus, as appropriate, shall promote ; in subsection (c), by striking , as appropriate, provide and insert make available ; and by adding at the end the following new subsection:
The Commission shall make publicly available online and in official publications, regularly updated lists of persons it determines are imprisoned, detained, disappeared, placed under house arrest, tortured, or subject to forced renunciations of faith for their religious activity or religious freedom advocacy by a foreign government or violent nonstate actor that the Commission recommends for designation as a country of particular concern for religious freedom under section 402(b) and include as much publically available information as possible on the conditions and circumstances of such individuals.
In compiling such lists, the Commission shall exercise all appropriate discretion, including consideration of the safety and security of, and benefit to, the persons who may be included on the lists and their families. .
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