Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Eritrea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Jehovah's Witness
Date of Detainment: September//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Tigisti Tsehaye
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Tigisti Tsehaye is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Tsehaye and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting at a private residence. Authorities confined her in Mai Serwa Prison.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Eritrea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Jehovah's Witness
Date of Detainment: September//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Tsige Ghebremedhin
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Tsige Ghebremedhin is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Ghebremedhin and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting at a private residence.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Iran
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: February//2026
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Disappeared
Mary Mohammadi
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Mary Mohammadi is forcibly disappeared for her religious belief.
In February 2026, Iranian Ministry of Intelligence authorities disappeared Mohammadi, a Christian convert and human rights journalist, and confined her in a detention center in Ahvaz. In early April, authorities transferred her to an undisclosed location.
Prior to her disappearance, government authorities detained or imprisoned Mohammadi four times for her religious conversion and activity. In November 2017, authorities raided her house church, arrested her, and imprisoned her for 6 months in Evin Prison for "membership in evangelical groups" and "engaging in Christian activity." In July 2019, February 2020, and January 2021, authorities arrested and released her for not observing mandatory head covering laws. During her various detentions, authorities sexually abused Mohammadi, subjected her to solitary confinement, denied her food and medical care, and mocked her for her faith.