Additional Name(s): Sattar Kadir
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: December//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Sattar Qadeer
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Sattar Qadeer is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In December 2024, authorities sentenced Qadeer to 7 years' imprisonment for receiving "illegal religious education" from his mother, Seylihan Rozi, when he was a boy between 2004 and 2008, as she taught her two sons and a neighbor Islamic prayers.
Gender: Female
Perpetrator: Iran
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: January//2024
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Parvin Ghadiani
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Parvin Ghadiani is detained for her religious conversion and activity.
In January 2024, Iranian security forces arrested Ghadiani, a Christian convert from Islam, for "proselytizing Christianity." Authorities confined her to Kachouei Prison in Karaj.
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: Iran
Religion or Belief: Christian – Unspecified/Other
Date of Detainment: December//2021
Current Status: Not Released
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment
Mahmoud Mardani
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Mahmoud Mardani is imprisoned for his religious conversion and activity.
In December 2021, plainclothes intelligence agents arrested Mardani, a Christian convert from Islam, and his brother while raiding a Christmas gathering in Fooladshahr. He was released on bail.
In January 2025, Judge Mohammad Ali Abbasi of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court in Isfahan sentenced him to 4 years' imprisonment, with 5 years' deprivation of social rights and a fine of 150 million tomans for "propaganda against the regime through promoting Christianity."