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January 02, 2024

Arash Moradi is imprisoned on religiously-based charges for his social activism. 

In October 2023, Iranian security forces arrested Moradi, a Gonabadi Sufi and social activist, at his…

August 04, 2023

Sergey Romanov is detained for his religious belief and activity.

On June 2, 2023, authorities placed Romanov in a temporary detention facility after accusing him of organizing and holding…

November 08, 2022

Chen Lijun is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

On August 13, 2022, authorities in Luanchuan county, Luoyang municipality, Henan province, detained Chen, a preacher and…

November 03, 2022

Yang Jianxin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In early 2021, authorities detained Yang, pastor of a house church, for “conducting illegal business operations” and “…

October 14, 2022

Lyudmila Shchekoldina is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On May 23, 2022, the Pavlovsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Shchekoldina to four years and one month in…

October 13, 2022

Danil Suvorov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On August 18, 2021, authorities in Sochi detained Suvorov following searches on the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses…

October 11, 2022

Mykhailo Britsyn was detained for his religious leadership role.

In September 2022, Russian military detained Britsyn, a pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine, during a religious…

October 11, 2022

Mykhailo Reznikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.

On March 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Reznikov, a Baptist pastor, in Russian-occupied Mariupol…

October 04, 2022

Elena Nikulina is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On April 2, 2021, authorities charge Nikulina with  “recruiting…a person in the activities of an extremist organization…

October 04, 2022

Aleksandr Shevchuk was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In February 2019, authorities reportedly open a criminal case against Shevchuk for “organizing the activities of a…