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Indonesia urged to stop persecution of religious minorities

Friday, November 16th, 2012

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has spoken out against the Indonesian government’s continued persecution of religious minorities.

Navanethem Pillay urged the world’s largest Muslim nation to translate universal human rights obligations into domestic law.

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