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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
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Muslim Uyghurs attend afternoon prayers at the Id Kah Mosque on October 15, 2006 in Kashgar City, Xinjiang Uygur, China (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)
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Chinese Catholic worshippers wait to take communion at the Palm Sunday Mass during the Easter Holy Week at an "underground" or "unofficial" church on April 9, 2017 near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Egyptian anti-government protesters celebrate at Tahrir Square in Cairo on February 11, 2011 after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after three decades of autocratic rule and handed power to a junta of senior military commanders (Getty Images)
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The eternal flame burns at the Armenian genocide memorial on April 24, 2015 in Yerevan, Armenia (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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In this photograph taken on February 23, 2020, a young member of the Assyrian Christian community walks with insense during a Sunday mass at the More Benham Kirklar Church in Mardin, south-eastern Turkey (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, at the State Department in Washington, DC on March 30, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Supporters of China's Muslim Uighur minority wave flags of East Turkestan and hold placards as they gather at the Beyazid square on October 1, 2020 during a demonstration to protest China's Uighur treatment in Istanbul. (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty I
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Uyghurs of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) hold a rally outside the US State Department calling on US President Joe Biden to increase pressure on the Chinese Communist Party, on February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by ALEX EDE
Experts
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Lela Gilbert
Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
