Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Victim NP-0105
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Victim NP-0105 is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In 2001, North Korean officials detained NP-0105 after he was refouled from China, where he had studied the Bible and become a religious leader amongst a group of North Koreans. When he arrived, North Korean authorities interrogated him at North Hamgyong Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to forced nudity, severe beatings, and inhumane sanitary conditions.
Authorities sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in a political prison camp.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: Yes
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victim NP-0076
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Victim NP-0076 is detained for her religious conversion and activity.
In 2014, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0076, confined her at Musan County MSS Detention Center, and charged her with converting to Christianity after she had been refouled from China with a group of North Koreans who had all attended the same church in China.
During detention, authorities beat her and subjected her to prolonged kneeling or stress-position detention, resulting in severe knee damage.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Kazakhstan
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: November//2025
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Batylbek Baikazy
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Batylbek Baikazy is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2025, Kazakh officials arrested Baikazy and 18 other human rights activists for protesting China's arrest of a Kazakh truck driver and its broader abuse of Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims in Xinjiang Province, China. Chinese authorities have perpetrated genocide and crimes against humanity against Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang on the basis of religion since 2017.
In April 2026, District Court Judge Yerzhan Nurdangazy sentenced Baikazy to 5 years' imprisonment for "inciting ethnic hatred."