US religious freedom panel urges sanctions against India’s RAW

Minorities in India face deteriorating treatment, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said on Tuesday, and it recommended targeted sanctions against India’s external spy agency over alleged involvement in assassination plots against Sikh separatists. The panel’s annual report also said communist-ruled Vietnam stepped up efforts to regulate and control religious affairs. It recommended Vietnam, a country like India with which Washington has sought to build close ties given shared concerns about China, also be designated a “country of particular concern.”