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Date: June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON,
DC: On Friday, June 17, 2005, HAF Board Member Nikhil N. Joshi,
Esq., visited Capitol Hill and met with the Honorable Congresswoman
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Ros-Lehtinen is the Republican Chair of
the Congressional India Caucus. Mr. Joshi met with the
congresswoman to discuss the serious human rights violations
that are occurring against Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh and
the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Nikhil Joshi, member
of the HAF Board of Directors, meets with Congresswoman
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) on Capitol Hill. |
The
meeting with the congresswoman took place in the storied Rayburn
Room in the Capitol Building, just off of the floor of the
House of Representatives. During the cordial meeting, Mr.
Joshi obtained the congresswoman's public backing of HAF's
first annual Hindu Human Rights Report which identifies the
atrocities that have occurred against Hindu minorities, which
have been mostly ignored or minimized by prominent human rights
groups and international bodies. The report is
to be released in early July.
"On
behalf of not only the 2.2 million Hindus in America, but
the 1.2 billion Hindus worldwide, we sincerely thank Congresswoman
Ros-Lehtinen for her efforts in raising awareness of the continuing
attacks against Hindus and for her commitment to see action
taken against those terrorists responsible."
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