Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Russia
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victoria Brazhnik
Extra Bio Info:
Victoria Brazhnik is detained for her religious activity.
In 2025, authorities charged Brazhnik with financing "an organization designated as undesirable" (Art. 284.1 RCC) due to her involvement in and charitable giving to the banned Vozrozhenie ("Revival") Church.
In August 2025, court authorities confined her to a psychiatric hospital due to her religious activity, despite no indication that she posed a danger to herself or others.
Gender: Unspecified
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0374
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0374 is imprisoned for their religious activity and association.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0374, along with 29 other North Koreans, after they were refouled from China. Chinese authorities had discovered a Bible among the group and beat them when no one confessed to owning it. When they were refouled, North Korean officials confined NP-0374 and others at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center and subjected them to invasive cavity searches.
Authorities sentenced NP-0374 to indefinite imprisonment at a political prison camp.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0314
Extra Bio Info:
Victim NP-0314 is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2016, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0314 for his Christian activity. Authorities held him at Ryanggang Provincial MSS Detention Center, where individuals are strip-searched, sexually mistreated, and denied food and medical care.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp.