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Kidane Weldou is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In March 2005, authorities forcibly disappeared Weldou from the streets of Asmara, leaving his car abandoned. Weldou…
Haile Naizghe is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2004, authorities arrested Naizghe, a pastor of the Full Gospel Church, which was part of a network of banned…
Meron Gebreselasie is detained for his religious leadership role.
In June 2004, authorities arrested Gebreselasie, pastor of Massawa Rhema Evangelical Church, for his leadership…
Kiflu Gebremeskel is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2004, Eritrean authorities arrested Gebremeskel, a pastor of the banned Southwest Full Gospel…
Naser Navard Goltapeh is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In February 2025, authorities detained Goltapeh and other Christians without charge and sent him to Evin Prison. …
Ju Dianhong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In late 2016 (around September), Yunnan authorities detained Ju and several colleagues. They were…
Liang Qin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In late 2016 (around September), Yunnan authorities detained Liang and several colleagues. They were…
Noman Asghar is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Asghar and his friend, Sunny Mushtaq, for receiving images deemed blasphemous via WhatsApp…
Ashfaq Masih is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In June 2017, authorities arrested Masih, a bicycle mechanic, following a dispute with a customer. Authorities charged Masih…
Ksor Ruk is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On October 30, 2018, authorities arrested Ruk, a missionary and religious leader. Authorities accused him of reviving Degar…
Siu Doang is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2016, authorities arrested Doang, a house-church leader, for participating in a religious group not approved by the government.…
Siu Dik is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2016, authorities arrested Dik, a deacon, for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. Authorities…
Ksor Phit is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2016, authorities arrested Phit, a deacon, for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. …
Ksor Pup is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2016, authorities arrested Pup, a house-church leader, for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. …
Y Pum Bya is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 10, 2018, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Pum Bya, a church leader, after accusing him of spreading false…
Y Min Ksor is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In April 2018, authorities arrested Ksor, a member of the unregistered Good News Missionary Church, during a police raid on a house…
Zhao Huaiguo is detained for his religious activity.
On March 14, 2020, state security officials detained Zhao, pastor of the unregistered house church Bethel Church, from his…
Rah Lan Hip is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In May 2019, state media announced that authorities had arrested Hip for "undermining national unity policy" (Art. 116/2015…
Kpuih Khuong is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2014, authorities arrested Khuong, a leader in the Degar Protestant Church, after accusing him of organizing meetings in support…
Ro Ma Daih is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Daih for being affiliated with the Degar Protestant Church, a church not approved by the…
Puih Bop is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Bop for being affiliated with the Degar Protestant Church, a church not approved by the…
Ksor Kam is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Kam for being affiliated with the Degar Protestant Church, a church not approved by the…
Ro Lan Kly is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Kly for being affiliated with the Degar Protestant Church, a church not approved by the…
Dinh Nong is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Nong for being affiliated with the Degar Protestant Church, a church not approved by the…
Zhang Chunlei is detained for his religious activity.
On March 16, 2021, authorities detained Zhang, an elder of the Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church, for "illegally operating as an…
Ameen Khaki is imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In November 2020, authorities raided Khaki's home and confiscated his personal belongings, including…
Alireza Nourmohammadi is imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
In November 2020, authorities raided Nourmohammadi's home and confiscated his personal belongings,…
Sakineh Behjati is imprisoned for practicing her faith as a convert.
On May 14, 2020, authorities took Behjati, a member of the Church of Iran, into custody after being unable to pay…
Dinh Yum is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2013, authorities arrested Yum, a house church leader, after accusing him of spreading Degar Protestantism, a…
Rah Lan Rah is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In December 2020, authorities arrested Rah following a crackdown on the First Christian Church, an independent house church…
Siu Chon is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In December 2020, authorities arrested Chon following a crackdown on the First Christian Church, an independent house church.…
Ro Mah Them is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In December 2020, authorities arrested Them following a crackdown on the First Christian Church, an independent house…
Y Tup Knul is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On October 6, 2020, authorities arrested Knul for his affiliation with the Degar Protestant Church, a religious movement not…
Wang Yi is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 9, 2018, authorities detained Wang, pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu and a former human…
Marco Girgis is imprisoned for blasphemy.
On June 14, 2021, authorities arrested Girgis for having pictures on his phone deemed to be offensive to Islam. During interrogation, he was…
Y Wo Nie is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 13, 2021, authorities arrested Nie, a member of an independent house church Dak Lak, for taking online…
Li Juncai is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On February 20, 2019, authorities in Xinxiang…
Joseph Shahbazian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On June 30, 2020, authorities arrested Shahbazian, a house-church leader, following raids targeting house-churches…
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 “…
Zhou Jinxia is detained for her religious activity.
On February 20, 2022, authorities detained Zhou, a member of the Beijing Aiqi house church, as she preached in front of the…
Liu Yingxu is detained for their religious belief and activity.
In December 2018, authorities in Chengdu municipality, Sichuan province,…
Yang Rongli is detained for her religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Yang and her husband Wang Xiaoguang, who…
Wang Xiaoguang is detained for his religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Wang and his wife Yang Rongli, who are…
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…
Thian Lian Sang is imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Sang, a Chin Baptist pastor, amid a wave of detentions by the Burmese Army of…
Lian Changnian is detained for his religious activity.
On August 17, 2022, police arrested Lian, who is a pastor, and two other members of the unregistered house church Church of…
Fu Juan is detained for her religious activity.
On August 17, 2022, police arrested Fu and two other members of the unregistered house church Church of Abundance in Xi’an city,…
Lian Xuliang is detained for his religious activity.
On August 17, 2022, police arrested Lian, who is a pastor, and two other members of the unregistered house church Church of…
Mikhail Simonov is imprisoned for criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine with religious language.
On November 9, 2022, authorities in Moscow arrested Simonov over two social media posts he…
Nikolai Ulitin is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities detained Ulitin, pastor of the Pentecostal Christ the Savior Church, following searches on…
Svyatoslav Yugov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In April 2023, authorities detained Yugov, former pastor of the New Generation Church in Chelyabinsk. Yugov…
Kim Jung-wook is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In October 2013, North Korean authorities arrested Kim Jung-wook, a South Korean missionary, after he allegedly…
Kim Kook-kie is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2014, North Korean authorities arrested and forcibly disappeared Kim Kook-kie, a South Korean pastor who engaged…
Kostiantyn Maksimov is imprisoned for his religious belief.
On May 16, 2023, Russian forces in Russian-occupied Chongar, Ukraine, detained Maksimov, a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Andrey Kapatsyna is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On September 23, 2022, Kapatsyna was sent to a military unit in Vladivostok after he received a military summons to support…
Vyacheslav Reznichenko is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On June 15, 2023, the Vladivostok Garrison Military Court sentenced Reznichenko to two years and six months in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nikolay Romanyuk is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In October 2024, Russian authorities arrested Romanyuk for preaching an anti-war…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
Wei Yunfei is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wei in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Li Shengjuan is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Li in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Zhu Mingli is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Zhu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Wu Qiuyu is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Zhan Ge is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Zhan in Jiaxing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
An Mei is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested An in Beihai, Guangxi along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Cui Xiaole is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Cui in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Wang Zhong is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Shanghai along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Wang Cong is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Zhou Songlin is detained for his religious activity.
In November 2023, Chinese authorities arrested Zhou Songlin, a pastor of the unregistered Hefei’s Ganquan Church.
In…
Yakov Vorontsov is detained for his religious expression and leadership role.
In February 2026, authorities arrested Vorontsov, a priest of an unregistered Orthodox church, during a…
Jonathan David Muir Burgos is detained for his religious association.
In March 2026, authorities arrested 16-year-old Muir Burgos along with his father, Pastor Elier Muir Ávila, during…