Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Nigeria

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sufi

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: Death

Date of Detainment: July//2021

Date of Sentencing: December/15/2022

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: Yes

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Blasphemy (General) Blasphemy (Religious Figures) Giving, Sharing, & Listening to a Religious Speech Religious Belief Religious Figure & Religious Leadership Role

Nature of Charges: Blasphemy Incitement to Commit Crime & Violence

Abduljabar Nasiru Kabara

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Sheikh Abduljabar Nasiru Kabara is imprisoned for blasphemy.

In July 2021, authorities arrested Kabara, a cleric, and charged him with blasphemy and incitement for his allegedly “defamatory sermons” that were “mortifying to the Holy Prophet Muhammad.” Prior to his arrest, authorities banned him from preaching and closed his mosque and affiliated religious schools. 

On December 15, 2022, an upper-Sharia Court in Kano sentenced Kabara to death for blasphemy. 

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Additional Name(s): Mukhitdin Saidovich Irgashev

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Uzbekistan

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni

Reports of Torture: Yes

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 15 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: April/1/2015

Date of Sentencing: September//2015

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Unknown

Mukhitdin Irgashev

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Mukhitdin Irgashev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On April 1, 2015, officers arrested Irgashev, along with his son in Bukhara, charging them first with administrative offenses and then later with extremism-related offenses. Irgashev ’s wife, Zumrat Irgashev, reports that both her husband and son were subjected to severe torture in custody between April and September 2015, during their trial period. Security services officers allegedly attempted to coerce them into signing false confessions of financing terrorism.

In September 2015, a Tashkent Court sentenced Irgashev to 15 years, Otabek to 11 years, and another son, Sardorbek Irgashev, to 12 years in prison on unspecified charges. According to Zumrat, all three were subjected to torture during pre-trial detention.

Irgashev is married with three children.

Related Cases: Sardorbek Irgashev, Otabek Irgashev

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Additional Name(s): Abdulbosit Kamoliddin ogly Akhmajonov

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Uzbekistan

Religion or Belief: Muslim – Sunni

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 15 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Sentencing: June/11/2017

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Religious Activity

Nature of Charges: Banned Organization Extremism Mercenarism Spreading Propaganda & False or Misleading Ideas, Information, or Materials Terrorism Treason & Sedition

Abdulbosit Akhmajonov

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Abdulbosit Akhmajonov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On June 11, 2017, the Fergana Region Court sentenced Akhmajonov to 15 years in prison for several criminal statutes, including being a mercenary (Art. 154 UCC), terrorism (Art. 155 UCC), “attempts to overthrow the constitutional order” (Art. 159 UCC), and an unspecified subsection of Article 244 UCC. The date of Akhmajonov's arrest was unspecified. 

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