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Deng Lihua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Deng amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Ge Qin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Ge amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God members.…
Hu Jinfeng is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 23, 2022, authorities from Shandong Province’s Qixia City Public Security Bureau detained Hu in connection with her…
Wu Shirong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 16, 2022, authorities in Kaiyuan City, Yunnan Province detained Wu for her religious activities with the Church of…
Wu Xiangzhen is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province detained Wu amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Xie Chunhua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, detained Xie because of her religious activities with the…
Yu Xiuxiang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 23, 2022, authorities from Shandong Province’s Qixia City Public Security Bureau detained Yu in connection with her…
Zhang Fangfang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Zhang amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Zhang Hongxia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 23, 2022, authorities from Shandong Province’s Qixia City Public Security Bureau detained Zhang in connection…
Zhu Xingxiu is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, detained Zhu because of her religious activities with the…
Gao Quanfu is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2025, authorities arrested Gao, pastor of Light of Zion Church, at his home in Xi'an and accused him of "…
Qu Hongbo is detained for his religious belief and leadership role.
In June 2025, authorities detained Qu Hongbo, pastor of Shenyang’s Sai’erte Youth Fellowship, a church affiliated…
Said Abdelrazek is detained for his religious conversion and activity.
After converting from Islam to Christianity in 2018, Abdelrazek was subject to various legal, social, and civil…
Letebrhan Tesfay is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, police officers arrested 85-year-old Letebrhan Tesfay while raiding her home as she hosted a peaceful…
Sidon Tekeste is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2024, authorities arrested Tekeste at school for respectfully refusing to contribute to a political fund.…
Berekti Habte is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, police officers arrested Habte while she attended a peaceful religious gathering. Authorities confined her in…
Ijaz Hussain is detained for his religious activity.
In May 2025, Pakistani authorities arrested Ijaz Hussain, along with another Ahmadi, Ayaz Hussain, for offering Friday prayers. During…
Ayaz Hussain is detained for his religious activity.
In May 2025, Pakistani authorities arrested Ayaz Hussain, along with another Ahmadi, Ijaz Hussain, for offering Friday prayers.…
Morteza Faghanpour-Saasi is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In June 2024, Iranian authorities arrested Morteza for distributing "illegal" Christian books and…
Maged Zakaria Abdel Rahman is detained for his religious activity.
In September 2025, Egyptian authorities arrested Rahman for expressing his religious beliefs on social media.
Abolfazl Ahmadzadeh-Khajani is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In June 2024, Iranian authorities arrested Ahmadzadeh-Khajani and pressured him to renounce his…
Natalia Minenkova is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In May 2024, Russian authorities arrested Minenkova for organizing Falun Gong activities, including identifying new members…
Zhu Yun is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In November 2024, Russian authorities arrested Yun for organizing Falun Gong activities.
In June 2025, authorities…
Ilya Vasilyev is imprisoned for his religiously based political activity.
In June 2024, Russian authorities arrested Ilya Vasilyev for opposing the war in Ukraine on religious grounds…
Nikolay Romanyuk is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In October 2024, Russian authorities arrested Romanyuk for preaching an anti-war…
Dr. Augustin Samaan is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In October 2025, Egyptian authorities arrested Samaan, a Christian apologist, and charged him with "contempt of Islam" for…
Mehran Shamloui is imprisoned for his religious activity and conversion.
In 2024, Iranian authorities arrested Shamloui for participating in a house church.
In December…
Elgiz Mammadov is detained for his religious belief and identity.
On June 10, 2025, authorities detained Mammadov, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Member (MUM), held him…
Tarlan Sayyadov is imprisoned for his religious association.
In March 2024, Azerbaijani authorities detained Sayyadov, a member of the unregistered Muslim Unity Movement (MUM)…
Kim Som Rinh is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On March 27, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Rinh, a Khmer Krom monk, in Preah Trapeang. His…
Thach Nga is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On March 27, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Nga, a Khmer Krom activist and Theravada Buddhist,…
Thach Xuan Dong is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On March 27, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Xuan Dong, a Khmer Krom activist and…
Nguyen Manh Hung is imprisoned for his religious activity and religious freedom advocacy.
In January 2025, Vietnamese authorities raided Hung's home, confiscated his belongings, and…
Ho Trong Phuc is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
Government officials repeatedly pressured Phuc to abandon his Hoa Hao Buddhist beliefs and embrace state-approved…
Y Thinh Nie is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2024, Vietnamese authorities detained Y Thinh Nie, a Montagnard Protestant, for refusing to join the state-controlled…
Thach Chanh Da Ra is Imprisoned and for his ethnoreligious identity and religious practice.
On March 25, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Ra, a Khmer Krom activist and Theravada…
Y Nuen Ayun is detained for his religious belief and association.
On October 8, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Nuen Ayun, a leader of the unregistered Montagnard Evangelical Church…
Seylihan Rozi is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In early 2017, she was detained for teaching verses from the Quran to her two sons and a neighbor.
In late 2018,…
Y Quynh Bdap is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On November 28, 2025, Thai authorities ordered Bdap, a Montagnard Christian, to be extradited to…
Ro Cham Grong is imprisoned for his religious belief and identity.
On May 10, 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Grong, a Montagnard Christian and deacon at the Dega Protestant…
Y Po Mlo is imprisoned for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In August 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Mlo, a Montagnard Christian and member of the…
Zahra Gholami is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
In December 2023, several dozen Iranian intelligence agents raided Gholami's house church in Shahriar and…
Hossein Mohammadi is imprisoned for his religious conversion and activity.
In December 2023, 30 Iranian intelligence agents raided Mohammadi's house church in Shahriar and arrested him…
Teymur Hosseini is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In December 2023, Iranian authorities arrested Hosseini after raiding his home and workplace.
In February 2024,…
Ali Khan Mahmudabad is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
In May 2025, officers arrested Mahmudabad, a Muslim political science professor known for his work on religion, and…
Duong Khai is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious practice.
In March 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Duong, a Khmer Krom monk and Theravada Buddhist. His…
Kim Khiem is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious practice.
In March 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Kim, a Khmer Krom monk and Theravada Buddhist. His arrest…
Chandy Varghese is detained for his religious activity.
In November 2025, Indian authorities arrested Varghese for his evangelism during a three-day spiritual gathering at Beersheba Church…
Arun John is detained for his religious activity.
In November 2025, Indian authorities arrested John for his evangelism during a three-day spiritual gathering at Beersheba Church in…
Rudy Palacios Vargas is under house arrest for his religious leadership role and religiously based political criticism.
On July 17, 2025, masked Nicaraguan officers arrested Palacios…
Aghali Yahyayev is imprisoned for his religious leadership role
On August 31, 2023, Azerbaijani authorities arrested Yahyayev, a member of the Board of Directors of the Muslim Unity Movement…
Rufat Safarov is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
On December 3, 2024, Azerbaijani authorities arrested Rufat Safarov, an outspoken critic of the Azerbaijani government’s…
Farkhod Negmatov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
In February 2025, Tajik authorities detained Negmatov and charged him with involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned…
Aida Najaflou is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
In February 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Aida, a Christian convert, along with four other Christians for…
Efrén Antonio Vílchez López is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
On May 15, 2022, Nicaraguan authorities beat and detained Vílchez López, a well-known cross-…
Ratu Thalisa is imprisoned for their religious expression.
On October 8, 2025, Indonesian authorities arrested Thalisa for making comments about Jesus's appearance that were deemed…
Wazir Khan is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
On February 24, 2025, Afghan authorities arrested Khan in his residence for his education rights advocacy, which conflicts…
Ibrahim Gailani is detained for his religious belief and leadership.
On September 5, 2025, the Taliban’s Ministry of the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced it had…
Abdul Alim Khamoosh is imprisoned and sentenced to death for his religious expression.
In 2025, Afghan authorities arrested Khamosh, a teacher in Paktika, for allegedly telling…
Y Krec Bya is imprisoned for his religious association and religious freedom advocacy.
On April 8, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Krec Bya, a Montagnard Christian and member…
Anvar Aliyev is under house arrest for his religious expression.
On July 14, 2025, Uzbek officers arrested Anvar Aliyev for discussing his Shi'a faith in a Telegram group chat. …
Sherif Gaber is detained for his online expression about religion.
In November 2025, Egyptian authorities arrested Gaber, a well-known atheist and online proponent of secularism, amid larger…
Amir Shehzad is detained for his religious expression.
In November 2024, four plainclothes officers from the Cyber Crime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan detained…
Maria Shahbaz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
On July 26, 2025,13-year-old Shahbaz was abducted by a 30-year-old man near her home, forcibly converted to Islam, and…
Nayereh Arjaneh is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
On July 7, 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Arjaneh and her husband at their home for attending a Christian seminar…
Navid Tashakor is detained for his religious identity.
On December 13, 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Tashakor, a Baha'i citizen, and charged him with “propaganda against the state…
Fadi Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Al-Nahhas is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Nahhas along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Mahmoud Ibrahim Mahmoud Al-Sharnouby is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Sharnouby along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Hussein Mohammed Hassan Al-Tenawi is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Tenawi along with other members of the Ahmadi Religion of…
Mahmoud Abdelmagid Abdelmagid Moaz is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Moaz along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi Religion…
Al-Sayed Othman Mohamad Ghali is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Nahhas along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi Religion…
Hazem Saied Abdel Moatamed is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Moatamed along with other members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and…
Hamdy Abd El-Azeem El-Sayed Abdallah is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Abdallah along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Ali Ahmad Mahmoud Shahat is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Shahat along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace…
Mohammed Adel Mohammed Salah Al-Deeb is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Deeb along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Mohammed Ahmed Ali Abdel-Hameed is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Abdel-Hameed along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Ali Al-Hadari (Ali Salah Ali Salah) is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Al-Hadari along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Othman Al-Gohary Othman Othman is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Othman along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi Religion of…
Mohammed Eissa Rashad Abdelraheem is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Abdelraheem along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi…
Omar Mahmoud Abdelmaguid Mohamed is detained for his religious association.
In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Mohamed along with other members of the Ahmadi Religion…
Wang Lin is detained for his religious belief and leadership role.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, along with dozens of other Christians…
Yin Huibin is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Yin in Beihai, Guangxi, along with dozens of other Christians affiliated…
Sun Cong is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Sun in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Liu Zhenbin is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Liu in Qingdao along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Liu Jiang is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Lu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Sun Xue was detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Sun in Zhengzhou along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Gao Yinjia is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Gao in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Hu Yanzi is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Hu in Jinhua along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…