Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Nigeria
Religion or Belief: Shaman
Date of Detainment: January//2026
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Obiageri Ottih
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Obiageri Ottih is detained for her religious activity.
In January 2026, Nigerian "Tiger Base" unit police officers arrested Ottih after some of her family members accused her and her husband of practicing witchcraft. Authorities confiscated their religious objects and held Ottih for four days before releasing her on bail.
In February 2026, Tiger Base police officers rearrested Obiageri Ottihand and confined her to the Tiger Base detention center to further investigate her alleged witchcraft, punishable under the Imo State Criminal Code.
Additional Name(s): محمدرضا طبری; Mohammad Reza Tabari; Mohammed Reza Tabrizi
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Iran
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: January//2026
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
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Mohammedreza Tabri is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In January 2026, police in Tehran arrested Tabri during city-wide protests.
Shortly thereafter, Judge Iman Afshari of Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death for "waging war against God."
Mar 23, 2026
On November 5, 2025, the High Court ruled in favor of the family of missing Pastor Raymond Koh, finding the Malaysian government and police liable for his abduction and enforced disappearance in 2017. While the court’s decision brought comfort to Koh’s family, his whereabouts remain unknown. Similarly, there have been no substantial progress made to the cases of missing Pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth Sitepu, as well as Shia activist Amri Che Mat.
On this episode of the USCIRF Spotlight Podcast, Chair Vicky Hartzler interviews the wife of missing Pastor Raymond Koh, Susanna Liew, and human rights lawyer Andrew Khoo to inquire about justice for victims of religiously-motivated enforced disappearance in Malaysia.