“It is the commission’s contention that (all schools) there are scores of religious prisoners of concern(ed) in Vietnam, detained and imprisoned in part for their (tensed) attempts to exercise their religious freedom to advocate on (the effort) behalf of it.”

       The state department responded that (the) Vietnam has made significant improvements in its record on (its) religious freedom in recent years, enough to avoid returning to the list. (The) a state department spokesman says Friday Vietnam has released prisoners, reopened churches and banned (un)forced renunciations of faith and that incidences of harassment and abuse are down significantly.

       Saudi Arabia is already on the state department’s list and after a visit to the kingdom last year. The commission says it should stay there. The report says the Saudi government has not kept its promise to tolerate religious expression other than its form of Sunni Islam or (did) to stop printing school books that incite hatred and violence.

       The committee on international religious freedom also released a watch list of countries it considers lesser violators, Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt and Indonesia. M says the group has seriously concerned about the level of religious freedom in Iraq (when) where non-Muslims face widespread violence from Sunni insurgents and foreign extremists.

NEW WORDS:

Contention: n 竞争，论点，主张

Renunciation: n 声明放弃，断绝关系

Incidence：n 发生率，影响范围

Insurgent：a 起义的，叛乱的

TIPS:

       小词：behalf of it，printing，lesser。