Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is imprisoned for her activism and criticism of state-endorsed religious interpretations. 

On September 26, 2022, authorities arrested Iraee from her home in…

Zhu Ya is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In April 2017, public security officials from Huangpi district, Wuhan municipality, Hubei province, detained Zhu in…

Mo Xiufeng is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On July 2, 2017, plainclothes police officers from Lishui city, Zhejiang province, detained Mo after raiding her home…

Wu Lin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On July 21, 2017, police from Lishui, Zhejiang province, arrested Wu reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role,…

Wang Ruiling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

August 31, 2017, officers from the Xuzhou City Pei County Public Security Bureau and the Zizhuang Town Police…

Xu Yanping is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On June 29, 2018, officers from the Poyang County Public Security Bureau of Shangrao city detained Xu reportedly in relation…

Ren Guixia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On February 18, 2015, police detained Ren at her home reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role, organizing of…

Wu Meixia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 8, 2017, officers from the Wuhai Public Security Bureau detained Wu reportedly in relation to her religious…

Yu Hai is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 4, 2017, officers from the National Security Brigade of Chengde City Public Security Bureau detained Yu in the…

Yu Jianwu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 4, 2017, officers from the National Security Brigade of Chengde City Public Security Bureau detained Yu in the…

Zhou Jiarong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On February 28, 2018, authorities detained Zhou reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role and printing of…

Wu Yanping is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On June 7, 2017, officers from the Wanzhou District Public Security Bureau detained Wu reportedly in relation to her…

Wang Guimin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On May 23, 2017, authorities arrested Wang reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs and work printing books for the…

Tian Yiqin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In March 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Tian reportedly in…

Shao Xingfu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In March 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Shao reportedly in…

Meng Lizhi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 11, 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau detained Meng reportedly for her religious…

Pan Feng is imprisoned for his religious activity.

In April 2018, authorities arrested Pan after accusing him of handing out Falun-Gong related materials.

On an unspecified date,…

Murtiza Memet is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

On an unspecified date believed to have been in 2018, authorities detained Memet for reportedly sending “illegal…

Mehmut Memet is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities in Uchturpan (Wushi) county, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Memet for…

Rainur Ibatullin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Ibatullin after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Arslan Salimzyanov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Salimzyanov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Airat Shakirov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Shakirov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Nail Yunusov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Yunusov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Wang Weiqing is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 11, 2019, authorities from Jiujiang municipality, Jiangxi province, arrested Wang after accusing her of distributing Falun…

Ding Shumei is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On October 30, 2017, authorities detained Ding Shumei and Huang Liping after police allegedly caught them distributing Falun Gong…

Li Yanchun is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Li and his wife, …

Liu Jianhui is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression. 

On October 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Liu. Reports…

Hu Yanling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 11, 2018, authorities arrested Hu in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…

Sun Ping is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On November 15, 2018, authorities detained Sun in Zibo city, Shandong province, for allegedly burning CDs and providing…

Salekh Magamadov is imprisoned in relation to state-imposition of a particular religious interpretation. 

On February 4, 2021, Magamadov and Magamadov's sibling, Ismail Isaev, -…

Ismail Isaev is imprisoned in relation to state-imposition of a particular religious interpretation. 

On February 4, 2021, Isaev and Isaev's sibling, Salekh Magamadov, - two…

Ma Yitao is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On September 10, 2017, police in Bei’an city, Heihe municipality, Heilongjiang province, arrested Ma and two colleagues for allegedly…

Rohan Ahmad is detained for alleged blasphemy.

In May 2020, authorities arrested Ahmad after he was accused of sharing on WhatsApp religious content deemed blasphemous. Authorities…

Tenzin Tharpa is detained for his religious activity.

In June 2020, public security officials in Driru (Biru)…

Wangchug is detained for sharing religious information.

On or around March 8, 2019, authorities in Shigatse (Rikaze…

Lobsang Trinle is imprisoned for adherence to a religious figure.

On July 1, 2021, police in Aba (Ngaba) county, Aba…

Jin Liyan is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On June 27, 2016, police in Ningde municipality, Fujian province, detained Jin in relation to her production and…

Zhuang Youbu is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On July 1, 2016, police in Ningde municipality, Fujian province, detained Zhuang in relation to her production and…

Nikolay Stepanov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 19, 2019, authorities in Vologda detained Stepanov following searches on the homes of…

Wang Jianmin is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On September 4, 2020, authorities in Laiyang detained Wang after catching her distributing Falun Gong leaflets. Police seized other…

Sanaz Tafazoli is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 22, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Tafazoli in Mashhad in relation to her being Baha'i.

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Hamid Gharehassanlou is imprisoned on religiously oriented charges for protesting religious freedom conditions. 

On November 4, 2022, authorities in Karaj arrested Gharehassanlou,…

Maryam Nematollahi is imprisoned for opposing state-mandated religious veiling.

On October 13, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nematollahi, an Instagram influencer and…

Mojahed Kourkour is imprisoned and sentenced to death on false charges justified on a religious basis. 

On December 20, 2022, authorities in Ahvaz arrested Kourkour in a violent raid…

Emil Ziyadinov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.

On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Ziyadinov among others after searching their…

Aleksey Trofimov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Trofimov after searching the homes of several…

Dmitriy Malevaniy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Malevaniy after searching the homes of several…

Olga Panyuta is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Panyuta after searching the homes of several Jehovah…

Manahel al-Otaibi is imprisoned for her religious freedom advocacy.

In November 2022, Saudi authorities arrested al-Otaibi, an online fitness influencer, for opposing religiously grounded…

Oybek Khamidov is imprisoned for his religious activities. 

On January 17, 2022, authorities arrested Khamidov for allegedly sharing illegal religious materials on social media to his…

Liu Aihua is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On July 7, 2022, Changsha public security authorities detained Liu for distributing Falun Gong materials.

On January 3,…

Fatemeh Sepehri is imprisoned for criticizing state-imposed religious policies. 

On September 21, 2022, security forces arrested Sepehri following the outbreak of nationwide…

Mukhammadi Mukharramov is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.

In 2016, authorities arrested Mukharramov, an imam, and accused him of teaching Salafism, a banned school…

Dmytro Naukhatsky is under house arrest for his religious activity. 

On December 8, 2022, authorities in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Naukhatsky after accusing him of…

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…

Vilen Temerianov is detained for his alleged religious activity.

On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including …

Ilfat Galimov is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Galimov after accusing him of the…

Rustam Khalikov is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Khalikov after accusing him of the…

Riza Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.

On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Enver Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.

On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Aider Dzhepparov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.

On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Dzhepparov after accusing him of being a member of the banned…

Anas al-Mazrou is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.

In March 2019, authorities arrested al-Mazrou, a university lecturer, for participating in a human rights panel at the…

Nasrin Soutudeh was detained for her religious freedom advocacy.

In October 2023, Iranian authorities arrested Soutudeh, an Iranian human rights activist and lawyer, as she…

Reza Rasaei is imprisoned and sentenced to death for protesting religious freedom conditions.

In November 2022, Iranian security forces arrested Rasaei, a Yarsani adherant, in Karaj after…

Abolfazl Pour-Hosseini is imprisoned for his religious activity.

In June 2023, authorities in Karaj detained Pour-Hosseini reportedly while he was passing out a leaflet about Erfan-e-Halgheh…

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…

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…

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,…