Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Uzbekistan
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Shi'a
Date of Detainment: July/14/2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: House Arrest
Anvar Aliyev
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Anvar Aliyev is under house arrest for his religious expression.
On July 14, 2025, Uzbek officers arrested Anvar Aliyev for discussing his Shi'a faith in a Telegram group chat.
On October 6, 2025, Judge Zhamshid Ibragimov of Samarkand City Criminal Court sentenced him to four years' imprisonment for "Production, storage, distribution or display of materials containing a threat to public security and public order" when carried out by a group (Art. 244-1, Part 3, Point 4).
Aliyev's sentence was suspended, and he was placed under house arrest.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Vietnam
Religion or Belief: Christian – Protestant
Date of Detainment: April/8/2023
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
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Y Krec Bya is imprisoned for his religious association and religious freedom advocacy.
On April 8, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Krec Bya, a Montagnard Christian and member of the unsanctioned Evangelical Church of Christ of the Central Highlands.
On March 28, 2024, a court in Dak Lak sentenced him to 13 years' imprisonment and five years' probation for “undermining solidarity.” Y Krec Bya was previously arrested multiple times and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment on similar charges in 2004.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Afghanistan
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Sentence: Death
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Abdul Alim Khamoosh
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Abdul Alim Khamoosh is imprisoned and sentenced to death for his religious expression.
In 2025, Afghan authorities arrested Khamosh, a teacher in Paktika, for allegedly telling students that science was more important than religious studies.
In July 2025, a Taliban court sentenced him to death for “insulting Sharia and the Prophet of Islam.”