Gender: Female
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victim NP-0401
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Victim NP-0401 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0401, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an underground Christian church led by two families. Authorities confined her at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to forced nudity and invasive cavity searches, beatings, overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and starvation. Authorities transferred her to Chongjin Susong Political Prison Camp (No. 25).
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: North Korea
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Victim NP-0400
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Victim NP-0400 is detained for his religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0400, along with 18 other victims, for his involvement with an underground Christian church led by two families. Authorities confined him at North Pyongan Provincial MSS Detention Center, where detainees are subjected to beatings, overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and starvation. Authorities transferred him to Chongjin Susong Political Prison Camp (No. 25).
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Russia
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni
Date of Detainment: March//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Esma Nimetulayeva
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Esma Nimetulayeva is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea raided Nimetulayeva's home at 4 am, searched for prohibited religious literature, and arrested her. Authorities accused her of being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a religious organization banned in Russia but not Ukraine, and confined her in a pre-trial detention facility.