Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Vietnam

Ethnic Group: Ede

Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other

Sentence: 4 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: May/18/2023

Date of Sentencing: January/26/2024

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Attending a Religious Gathering or Meeting Praying Religious Activity Religious Association Religious Belief Religious Identity Resisting State Interference into Religious Affairs

Nature of Charges: Subversion

Nay Y Blang

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Nay Y Blang is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On May 18, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Blang on accusations including “abusing democratic freedoms” (Art. 331/2015 VCC) for his affiliation with the unrecognized and unregistered Central Highlands Evangelical Church of Christ and holding in-home religious meetings for fellow members. 

On January 26, 2024, the People's Court of Phu Yen province sentenced Blang to four years and six months in prison. 

Blang was previously imprisoned for his peaceful religious activity. In 2005, Blang was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for "undermining the unity policy." Upon his release from prison in 2010, authorities sent Blang to an "educational facility" for 24 months for “abusing the rights to democratic freedom and freedom of belief to entice and incite others to violate the law, interests of the State, legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.” 

Additional Name(s): Низомиддин Насриддинов

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Tajikistan

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni

Sentence: 8 Years, 6 Months' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: January/8/2023

Date of Sentencing: October/5/2023

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religiously Based Political Activity Transnational Repression

Nature of Charges: Incitement to Commit Crime & Violence

Nizomiddin Nasriddinov

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Nizomiddin Nasriddinov is imprisoned for his online engagement with religiously based political parties. 

On January 8, 2023, Belarusian authorities arrested Nasriddinov as he entered the country at the request of Tajik officials.

On July 24, Belarus extradited Nasriddinov to Tajikistan, where he was placed in pre-trial detention.

In 2017, Tajikistan placed Nasriddinov, who holds refugee status and lives in Germany, on a global wanted list for his online engagement with the banned religiously affiliated political party Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and other banned political opposition groups, accusing him of committing "public calls for extremist activities." 

On October 5, 2023, the Ismoili Somoni district court sentenced Nasriddinov to eight and a half years in prison on charges of "public calls to violent change of the constitutional order of Tajikistan" (Art. 307 TCC).  

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Additional Name(s): Abdullohi Shamsiddin, Абдуллоҳи Шамсиддин

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Tajikistan

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni

Sentence: 7 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: January/18/2023

Date of Sentencing: March/29/2023

Current Status: Not Released

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity Religious Association

Nature of Charges: Incitement to Commit Crime & Violence

Abdullo Shamsiddin

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Abdullo Shamsiddin is imprisoned for his affiliation with a religiously based political party.

On January 18, 2023, Shamsiddin, who had been living in Germany since 2009, was extradited to Tajikistan after failing to submit proper documentation in a timely manner to German migration authorities. Upon arrival in Tajikistan, Shamsiddin was placed in pretrial detention. 

On March 29, 2023, a court in Dushanbe sentenced Shamsiddin to seven years in prison on charges of "public calls to violent change of the constitutional order of Tajikistan" (Art. 307 TCC) for his affiliation with the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), which has been banned as an extremist group since 2015.