Gender: Female
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Create Abundance
Date of Detainment: April//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Lu Ying
Extra Bio Info:
Lu Ying is imprisoned for her religious activity and association.
In April 2024, Chinese authorities arrested Lu and placed her under house arrest for her affiliation with Create Abundance, a legal commercial franchise network of lifestyle clubs in China that promotes spirituality and personal development.
Authorities at Xinmin City Court in Liaoning sentenced her to 8 months' imprisonment for “using superstition to undermine law enforcement,” and officers confined her in Shenyang No. 1 Detention Center.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Create Abundance
Date of Detainment: May//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Pei Xiaoling
Extra Bio Info:
Pei Xiaoling is imprisoned for her religious activity and association.
In May 2024, Chinese authorities arrested Pei and placed her under house arrest for her affiliation with Create Abundance, a legal commercial franchise network of lifestyle clubs in China that promotes spirituality and personal development.
Authorities at Xinmin City Court in Liaoning sentenced her to 8 months' imprisonment for “using superstition to undermine law enforcement,” and officers confined her in Shenyang No. 1 Detention Center.
Additional Name(s): Malek al-Dowaish
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Saudi Arabia
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni
Date of Detainment: July//2022
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Malik al-Dowaish
Extra Bio Info:
Malik al-Dowaish is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In July 2022, Saudi authorities arrested Malik al-Dowaish for peacefully advocating for his father, Sulaiman al-Dowaish, a religious scholar who was forcibly disappeared in 2016.
In summer 2023, Saudi judicial authorities sentenced al-Dowaish to 27 years' imprisonment. In early 2025, his sentence was reduced to 15 years' imprisonment.