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Anton Virich is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 11, 2023, authorities in Uzhur detained Virich and subsequently disappeared him for nine days until friends found…
Wan Changchun is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2023, authorities from Yuhui district, Bengbu municipality, Anhui province detained Wan, a pastor from the…
Tsultrim is imprisoned for his adherence to a religious figure.
In February/March 2023, authorities in Marthang county, Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (T&QAP),…
Yidam is detained for his religious activity.
In January 2023, authorities in Dangxiong (Damshung) county, Lhasa municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, detained Yidam after he and…
Sonam Gyatso is detained for their religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans,…
Gonkyab is detained for their religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans,…
Dradul is detained for his religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans, including…
Marina Chaplykina is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 18, 2023, the Novosibirsk District Court sentenced Chaplykina to four years in prison for “…
Valeriy Maletskov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2019, authorities placed Maletskov under house arrest following raids on several Jehovah's Witness…
Liu Xing is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In July 2022, authorities in Daxing district, Beijing municipality, detained at least 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including …
Liu Yuhong is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In July 2022, authorities in Daxing district, Beijing municipality, detained at least 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including …
Wu Aping is detained for her religious activity.
In July 2022, authorities in Xuanwu district, Nanjing municipality, Jiangsu province, detained Wu after raiding Xuanzang Temple. The…
Palgon is detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Guoluo (Golog) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province, detained Palgon after he contacted…
Li Fangfang is detained for her religious activity.
On August 3, 2022, authorities from Tiexi district, Shenyang municipality, Liaoning province, detained Li for passing out Falun Gong…
Pan Hongming is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Erdaojiang district, Tonghua municipality, Jilin province, detained four individuals,…
Yue Chunguang is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Erdaojiang district, Tonghua municipality, Jilin province, detained four individuals,…
Karma Samdrub is detained for his adherence to a religious figure.
On August 12, 2022, authorities in Lhasa municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained Samdrub after finding…
Gelo is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Tsedo is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Kori is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Bamo is imprisoned for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained…
Hakop Gochumyan is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 15, 2023, authorities in Pardis arrested Gochumyan while he and his family were having dinner at a friend's…
Bladimir Pallés is imprisoned for his religious association.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Pallés, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in the Diocese of Estelí.…
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…
Mariam Al Qisoom is imprisoned for her religious freedom advocacy.
In February 2019, authorities arrested Qisoom for her human rights advocacy on behalf of Shi'a minorities in…
Ervin López is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested López, a priest from the Diocese of León. His arrest came…
Francisco Odorico Castilblanco is detained for his religious belief and religious activity.
On January 2, 2024, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Castilblanco, a seminarian from the…
María Asunción Salgado is detained for her religious activity and association.
On October 7, 2023, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Salgado, along with Father Yesner Cipriano Pineda…
Emmanuel Gutiérrez is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On April 5, 2023, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Gutiérrez for allegedly participating in a Catholic Holy Week procession.…
Zhai Xinping is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 12, 2022, police arrested Zhai Xinping in Zhoukou City, Henan Province for possessing Church of Almighty God electronic…
Yang Weihong is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 12, 2022, police arrested Yang Weihong in Zhoukou City, Henan Province for possessing Church of Almighty God electronic…
Zhao Guiqin is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 12, 2022, police arrested Zhao Guiqin in Zhoukou City, Henan Province for possessing Church of Almighty God electronic…
Du Meiling is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 12, 2022, police arrested Du Meiling in Zhoukou City, Henan Province for possessing Church of Almighty God electronic religious…
Mina Karami is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In September 2022, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court convicted Karami, an Iranian Baha'i, on charges related to "…
Soroush Iqani is imprisoned for his religious identity.
In June 2023, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Iqani, an Iranian Baha'i, to two years in prison on charges of "…
Abdullo Shamsiddin is imprisoned for his religious association.
In January 2023, Tajik authorities detained Shamsiddin after he was extradited from Germany. Authorities charged him with "…
Nizomiddin Nasriddinov is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In July 2023, Tajik authorities detained Nasriddinov after he was extradited from Belarus. Nasriddinov…
Nay Y Blang is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 18, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Blang on accusations including “abusing democratic freedoms” (Art.…
Muhsinjon Ahmedov is detained for his religious activity.
On October 20, 2023, French authorities again detained Ahmedov, this time keeping him in a deportation center before…
Noushin Mesbah is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2023, Branch 1 of the Mashhad Revolution Court sentenced Mesbah to one year in prison on charges of "…
Radik Khairutdinov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
On September 23, 2019, authorities detained Khairutdinov and others after accusing them of studying Islam and…
Elmar Mamedov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
On September 23, 2019, authorities detained Mamedov and others after accusing them of studying Islam and spreading…
Abdulhannon Usmonov is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In January 2023, authorities from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Khatlon region arrested Abdulhannon…
Aleksandr Chagan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On February 29, 2024, the Central District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara Region sentenced Chagan to eight years in…
Lina Lutfiawati is imprisoned for her religious expression.
In May 2023, police charged Lutfiawati with "disseminating information aimed at inflicting hatred or dissension on individuals and…
Eduard Sharlot is detained for blasphemy.
On November 22, 2023, authorities detained Sharlot, a musician, at Pulkovo Airport and placed him under administrative arrest. Sharlot's…
Gubad Ibadoglu is under house arrest in relation to false charges of possessing religious extremist materials.
On July 23, 2023, police arrested world-renowned political economist and civil…
Vusal Alish is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Alish, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement, along with 30 others, accusing them of…
Ismayil Ismayilov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Ismayilov, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement, along with 30 others,…
Rashad Aliyev is imprisoned for his religious association.
In January 2023, authorities arrested Aliyev, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement, amid a deterioration of…
Elshan Rahimov is imprisoned for his religious association.
In January 2023, authorities arrested Rahimov, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement, amid a deterioration…
Javid Allahverdiyev is imprisoned for his religious association.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Allahverdiyev, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement, amid a…
Aslan Gasimov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In June 2023, authorities arrested Gasimov amid a deterioration of relations between Azerbaijan and Iran and a crackdown on…
Khayyam Karimov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In January 2023, authorities arrested Karimov amid a deterioration of relations between Azerbaijan and Iran and a…
Ding Zhongfu is detained for his religious leadership role.
In November 2023, law enforcement authorities in Hefei city, Anhui province, arrested Ding, an elder of the unregistered house…
Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov, imam of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in…
Bakhtiyor Akbarov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Akbarov, a religious leader of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in the…
Mirzoburhan Salmanzoda is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Salmanzoda, a congregant of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in…
Stanislav Kim is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Kim to eight years and two months in prison for “organizing…
Vitaliy Zhuk is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Zhuk to eight years and four months in prison for “organizing…
Nikolai Polevodov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Polevodov to eight years and six months in prison for “…
Neda Fotouhi is imprisoned for her membership in a religious organization and activism.
In October 2023, Iranian security forces arrested Fotouhi, an Iranian follower of Erfan-e-Halgheh,…
Frutos Constantino Valle Salmerón is detained for his religious association and leadership role.
On July 26, 2024, Nicaraguan police arrested Salmerón, a priest and the administrator of…
Raúl Francisco Villegas is detained for his religious association and leadership role.
On August 2, 2024, the authorities arrested Villegas, the parish priest of the Nuestra Señora de…
Carmen María Sáenz Martínez is under house arrest for her religious affiliation.
On August 10, 2024, authorities arrested Martínez, who worked at the Diocese of Matagalpa on marriage…
Lesbia Gutiérrez is under house arrest for her religious association.
On August 10, 2024, authorities arrested Gutiérrez, the former coordinator of the Urban and Rural Financial Support…
Choi Chun-gil is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In December 2014, North Korean authorities reportedly arrested and forcibly disappeared Choi Chun-gil, a South Korean…
Abdumutal Abdurahimov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
In May 2024, the Bog’dod District Court sentenced Abdurahimov to 12 years in prison for his affiliation with the…
Mojdeh Falahi is detained for her religious belief.
In September 2024, Iranian security authorities arrested Falahi, a Christian convert, in Shiraz. Falahi reportedly went to the Shiraz…
Mazaher Heydari is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In June 2024, Iranian security forces arrested Heydari, a Gonabadi Sufi who has advocated for women’s rights…
Salai Ayla Lone Wai is imprisoned for his religious activity, leadership, and ethnoreligious identity.
On December 28, 2021, Burmese military authorities arrested Ayla Lone Wai, an ethnic…
Fitsum-Berhan Gebrenegus is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2004, Eritrean police authorities arrested Gebrenegus, an Eritrean Orthodox priest at the…
Gebremedhin Gebregergis is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2004, Eritrean police authorities arrested Gebregergis, a theologian and Eritrean…
Mussie Ezaz is detained for his religious activity.
In September 2007, authorities arrested Ezaz, an evangelist of 14 years and leader of the unregistered evangelical Kale Hiwot (Word…
Tekleab Mengisteab is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2004, Eritrean police authorities arrested Mengisteab, an Eritrean Orthodox priest at the Mekane…
Umar Khalimov is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Khalimov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home…
Sardor Jurayev is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Jurayev and seven other Muslims, after six of them had attended a meal at the home…
Laziz Vokhidov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Vokhidov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home of a…
Jamshid Abdirakhimov is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Abdirakhimov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal…
Gaybullo Jalilov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Jalilov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home of…
Anvar Abdullayev is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Abdullayev and other Muslims he was associated with after some of their group had…
Ashfaque Ali is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In January 2025, Judge Tariq Ayub sentenced Ali to death for posting content deemed blasphemous on social media…
Rana Usman is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In January 2025, Judge Tariq Ayub sentenced Usman to death for posting content deemed blasphemous on social media…
Salman Sajjad is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In January 2025, Judge Tariq Ayub sentenced Sajjad to death for posting content deemed blasphemous on social media…
Wajid Ali is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In January 2025, Judge Tariq Ayub sentenced Ali to death for posting content deemed blasphemous on social media and…
Cai Yingge is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Cai amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Chen Aishe is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Chen amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Wang Zhongqiu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 4, 2021, authorities in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province detained Wang because of his religious activities with…