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…

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…

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…

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 “…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…