Additional Name(s): Kunchok Choedak
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Buddhist – Tibetan
Date of Detainment: December//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Konchog Choedrag
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Konchog Choedrag is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In December 2024, authorities in Sangchu county, Gansu province detained Konchog, a Tibetan monk and leader of Sangchu's Hortsang Kirti Monastery, likely in connection to his adherence to exiled Tibetan Buddhist religious leader Kirti Rinpoche. Authorities raided his monastic quarters and confiscated religious materials related to the intercoordination of monasteries in Tibet.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: October//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Ma Simin
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Ma Simin is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In October 2024, authorities detained Ma Simin, an imam and former principal of an Arabic-language school, in Honghe County, Yunnan Province. Ma Simin's arrest came amid a crackdown on Hui imams and Muslim scholars.
Additional Name(s): 赵宏亮
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Christian – Protestant
Date of Detainment: February//2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Zhao Hongliang
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Zhao Hongliang is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In February 2025, authorities arrested Zhao, pastor of Xinyi Village (Covenant) Church, along with several other members of his church after some members dismantled surveillance equipment installed in the church by governing authorities. The church also refused to comply with government orders to remove the cross and exclude children from their worship services. Authorities confined him at Huainan PSB Detention Center in Tianjia’an district.