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“Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others... [P]risoners continue to enjoy their rights to manifest their religion or belief to the fullest extent compatible with the specific nature of the constraint."
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as ratified by the United States in 1992

Submission to the UN UN Human Rights Committee re United States 5th Periodic Review and Indigenous Prisoners Religious Freedoms
September 2023

Submission to UN Human Rights Committee re United States 5th Periodic Review and Indigenous Prisoners Religious Freedoms
January 2019

Letter to US State Department Re CERD Implementation Indigenous Prisoners Religious Rights
August 2017

Joint Submission – American Indigenous Prisoners’ Religious Rights – Report to United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (In Re: United States’ Combined 7th, 8th and 9th Periodic Reports)
July 2014

“To Geneva With Love: Native Prisoners’ Religious Rights Movement Goes Global”
May 2014

Joint Submission – Indigenous Prisoners’ Religious Freedoms in the United States- Report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (109th Session)
September 2013

National Congress of American Indians Resolution #REN-13-005, “Ensuring the Protection of Native Prisoners’ Inherent Rights to Practice their Traditional Religions
June 2013

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Resolution #13-63, “Ensuring the Protection of American Indigenous Prisoners’ Inherent Rights to Practice Traditional Indian Religion
May 2013

Huy Letter to UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya re: Indian Prisoner Religious Freedom (blog post), Turtle Talk
April 2013

Huy-State of Washington Department of Corrections Funding Agreement
April 2013

“Native American Prisoners Obtain Religious Freedom” (legal article), Bar Bulletin
July 2012

Materials on Prison Inmate Religious Freedom Issues (blog post), Turtle Talk
September 2010