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Secretary Clinton to Release Report on International Religious Freedom on September 13
Contact: Department of State, Office of Press Relations, 202-647-2492; Evan Owen, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor, 202-647-4747 owene@state.gov
 
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will release the 2010 mid-year Report on International Religious Freedom on Tuesday, September 13, at approximately 10:00 a.m. in the Press Briefing Room at the U.S. Department of State. 
 
Secretary Clinton will introduce the report. Following her remarks, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner and Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook will take questions. 
 
The remarks will be open to credentialed members of the media. Media should enter through the 23rd Street entrance no later than 9:30 a.m.
 
Embargoed copies of the 2010 mid-year Report on International Religious Freedom will be available online as of 8:00 AM, Tuesday September 13:
user name: IRF_Jul-Dec               
password: IRF_4321
 
These reports will remain embargoed until the end of the press briefing on September 13, 2011
 
The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom covers the legal status of religious freedom in more than 190 countries and territories around the world. The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 also mandates the designation of Countries of Particular Concern. Countries of Particular Concern are governments that have engaged in, or tolerated, systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom. 
 
Media representatives may attend this event upon presentation of one of the following: (1) A U.S. Government-issued identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense or Foreign Press Center), (2) a media-issued photo identification card, or (3) a letter from their employer on letterhead verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied by an official photo identification card (driver's license, passport).

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