Guwahati, May 26 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has placed Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma under renewed international scrutiny over allegations of anti-minority violence, hate speech and state-led targeting of Muslims.

During a hearing on religious freedom conditions held earlier this month, former US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Stephen J. Rapp alleged that Assam and Uttar Pradesh has witnessed some of the "most serious abuses by state actors" against minorities in recent years.

Rapp alleged that Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam were being subjected to forced evictions, discriminatory policing and citizenship-related targeting. He argue...