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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…
Nguyen Hoang Nam is imprisoned in relation to his religious affiliation.
On July 24, 2023, authorities arrested Nam after accusing him of posting materials online that undermined…
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…
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. …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A Tach is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2012, authorities arrested Tach in relation to his activities with the unregistered Ha Mon Catholic Church. …
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…
A Jen is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2015, authorities arrested Jen for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. …
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…
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…
Joseph Zhang Weizhu is detained for his religious activity.
On May 21, 2021, authorities detained Zhang, the Vatican-approved bishop of the Xinxiang Diocese in Henan, the day after…
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…
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…
Lup is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In March 2020, authorities arrested Lup. Authorities accused him of spreading Ha Mon Catholicism, a religious movement not…
Kunh is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In March 2020, authorities arrested Kunh. Authorities accused him of spreading Ha Mon Catholicism, a religious movement…
Ju is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In March 2020, authorities arrested Ju. Authorities accused him of spreading Ha Mon Catholicism, a religious movement not…
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…
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…
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…
Le Tung Van is under house arrest for his religious activity.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as Tinh That Bong…
Le Thanh Trung Duong is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as…
Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as…
Le Thanh Nhi Nguyen is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On May 27, 2022, authorities arrested Nguyen, a member of the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist…
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…
Cui Tai is detained for his religious leadership role.
On June 19, 2020, police in Zhangjiakou municipality, Hebei province, detained Cui Tai, a Catholic bishop, reportedly in…
Mou Guojian is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In March 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur…
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…
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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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Kakadjan Halbaev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In February 2018, authorities detained Halbaev, a former student who had studied in Russia, and charged him with "petty hooliganism…
Kemal Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In January 2018, authorities in Ashgabat detained Saparov, a student who was studying abroad in Russia, for alleged disorderly conduct…
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…