My apologies for providing the incorrect text and weblinks. Here are the reports that appeared in India's national newspapers of 28th and 29th April 2011.
*US body again hauls up India for communal riots *Washington: The US Commission for International Religious Freedom has,for the second year in a row,placed India under its watch list of religious freedom,saying justice for the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots,2002 Gujarat riots and the 2007 Orissa violence remains slow and often ineffective. The USCIRF is an independent federal body that monitors religious freedom violations abroad and makes recommendations to the US President.Also on its 2011 Watch List Countries are Afghanistan,Cuba,Indonesia,Russia and Turkey.But two important panel membersFelice Gaer and William Shaw said the decision to include India was ill advised.It ignores the logic of its own observationsthat the Indian government and Supreme Court have taken a range of commendable and significant steps demons trating the will to prevent new outbreaks of religiously motivated communal violence, they wrote.AGENCIES http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=11&edlabel=TOIM&mydateHid=28-04-2011&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar01107&format=&publabel=TOI *India on religious freedom watchlist* Washington: Placing India under the watch list of religious freedom, the US Commission for International Religious Freedom has said that justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, 2002 Gujarat communal riots and the 2007 violence in Orissa remains "slow" and "often ineffective". This is for the second year that India has been placed under "Watch List Countries" of the independent federal body that monitors violations of religious freedom abroad and makes recommendations to the US President http://www.indianexpress.com/news/briefly-nation/782671/0 Religious freedom: India on US ‘watch list’ Washington, Apr 29, (Agencies): *A bipartisan US panel on global religious freedom has named Pakistan and 12 other nations as ''countries of particular concern'' while placing India on its 'watch list' for the second year in succession.* In a report to the US Congress, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) termed India’s progress in protecting the rights of minorities as mixed and placed it on the second category watch list. While not rising to the statutory level under US law requiring designation as a “country of particular concern”, watch list countries require close monitoring due to the nature and extent of violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by the governments, the report said. The Indian government at various levels recognised the problem of communal violence and created some structures to address these issues, it said. “However, justice for victims of communal violence was slow and often ineffective. While there was no large-scale communal violence against religious minorities during the reporting period, attacks on Christians and Muslims and their places of worship continued, along with incidences of intolerance against both.” The USCIRF, which was denied visas by India to have a spot assessment of the ground realities for the second consecutive year, urged “the US to integrate concern for religious freedom and related human rights into all bilateral contacts with India, and for US ambassador to India to speak out against communal violence”. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/66679/religious-freedom-india-us-watch.html
