Additional Name(s): Malek al-Dowaish
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Saudi Arabia
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni
Date of Detainment: July//2022
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Malik al-Dowaish
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Malik al-Dowaish is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In July 2022, Saudi authorities arrested Malik al-Dowaish for peacefully advocating for his father, Sulaiman al-Dowaish, a religious scholar who was forcibly disappeared in 2016.
In summer 2023, Saudi judicial authorities sentenced al-Dowaish to 27 years' imprisonment. In early 2025, his sentence was reduced to 15 years' imprisonment.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Indonesia
Religion or Belief: Unknown
Date of Detainment: May/5/2022
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Silfi Latifah
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Silfi Latifah is imprisoned for her religious expression.
In May 2022, police officers arrested Latifah for uploading a video to social media of her husband stomping on a Qur'an.
In September 2022, Chief Justice Sylvia Yudhiastika of the SUKABUMI District Court sentenced her to 4 years' imprisonment and fined her 100,000,000 rupiah for blasphemy and spreading information aimed at causing hatred toward individuals or groups based on religion.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Religion or Belief: Christian – Protestant
Date of Detainment: November/30/2023
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Zhou Songlin
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Zhou Songlin is detained for his religious activity.
In November 2023, Chinese authorities arrested Zhou Songlin, a pastor of the unregistered Hefei’s Ganquan Church.
In February 2026, the Shushan District Court sentenced him to 4 years, 6 months' imprisonment, fined him 30,000 yuan, and ordered the confiscation of 366,000 yuan in private property for alleged "fraud," a charge weaponized by the government to target unregistered house churches.