RELIGIOUS PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PROJEC T AND VIC TIMS LIST FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF VICTIMS LIST The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA), as amended by the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016, requires USCIRF to: “make publicly available, to the extent practicable . . . lists of persons it determines are imprisoned or detained, have disappeared, been placed under house arrest, been tortured, or subjected to forced renunciation of faith for their religious activity or religious freedom advocacy by the government of a foreign country that the Commission recommends for designation as a country of particular concern [CPC] . . . or by a nonstate actor that the Commission recommends for designation as an entity of particular concern [EPC].” USCIRF’s Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Victims List is a database that catalogues select victims targeted due to their religion or belief from countries that USCIRF recommends for CPC and Special Watch list designations, as well as EPCs. To date, the FoRB Victims List includes over 1,000 individuals detained by 18 countries and entities of particular concern. These victims represent a diverse number of faith communities, as shown in the chart below. FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF (FORB) VICTIMS LIST BY FAITH Atheist Scientologist ECKist Erfan-e Halgheh Practitioner Buddhist - Hoa Hao Buddhist - Unspecified/Other Baha'i Christian - Orthodox Humanist Buddhist - Tibetan Christian - Catholic Unspecified Muslim - Ahmadiyya Muslim - Sunni Unknown Muslim - Unspecified/Other Muslim - Sufi Christian - Protestant Hindu Falun Gong Christian - Unspecified/Other Jehovah's Witness Muslim - Shi'a Please refer to the USCIRF website for more information on the FoRB Victims List. Due to limited resources, USCIRF has been unable to identify and document all victims that meet the statutory requirements to be included on the FoRB Victims List. As such, the data contained in the database does not reflect country, regional, or global trends. To support this project, USCIRF invites those with credible information on victims to submit information using the intake form here. Please refer to the About Section of the FoRB Victims List for more information on the scope of the database. APPENDIX 2 99