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Nakisa Hajipour is detained for her religious belief and activity.
On January 1, 2023, authorities at Hasheminejad Airport in Mashhad reportedly arrested Hajipour in relation to…
Valeriy Kriger is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 19, 2022, the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced Kriger to seven…
Sergey Shulyarenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 19, 2022, the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced Shulyarenko to…
Sergey Kardakov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Kardakov to six years and…
Sergey Yermilov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Yermilov to six years and…
Adam Svarichevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Svarichevskiy to six…
Anton Olshevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Olshevskiy to six years…
Sergey Afanasiyev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Afanasiyev to six years…
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…
Nahaleh Shahidi is detained on a religious basis.
On March 28, 2023, security forces arrested Shahidi, a Baha’i citizen and child rights activist, while she was traveling from Karaj…
Nikolay Voishchev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 20, 2022, authorities in Maykop detained Voishchev after searching his home. Investigators accused…
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…
He Binggang is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On October 9, 2021, authorities in Changning district, Shanghai municipality, arrested He in relation to his Falun Gong activities. He…
Zhang Yibo is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On October 9, 2021, authorities arrested Zhang in relation to her Falun Gong activities. She was brought to the Changing PSB Detention…
Keyvan Rahimian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2023, authorities in Tehran arrested Rahimian, a lecturer at an online Baha'i university, reportedly…
Mojgan Samimi was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2023, security forces from Ministry of Intelligence reportedly arrested Samimi from her home in…
Shadi Shahidzadeh is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 1, 2023, authorities arrested Shahidzadeh at her home in Tehran reportedly in relation to her being Baha'…
Mansour Amini is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 1, 2023, authorities arrested Amini at his home reportedly in relation to his activities assisting Baha'i…
Valiollah Ghadamian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 1, 2023, authorities arrested Ghadamian reportedly in relation to his activities assisting Baha'i…
Sabin Yazdani is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces reportedly raided Yazdani's home in Karaj.
In February 2023, it was reported…
Mahsa Tirgar Bahnemiri is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Karaj Revolutionary Court had sentenced Bahnemiri to two…
Rameleh Tirgarnejad is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces reportedly raided Tirgarnejad's home in Karaj.
In February 2023, it…
Elham Shareghi Arani is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Karaj Revolutionary Court had sentenced Arani to three years…
Nakisa Sadeghi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces reportedly raided Sadeghi's home in Karaj.
In February 2023, it was…
Sadaf Sheikhzadeh is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Karaj Revolutionary Court had sentenced Sheikhzadeh to two…
Shahrzad Mastouri is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Karaj Revolutionary Court had sentenced Mastouri to two…
Negin Rezaie is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2023, it was reported that the Karaj Revolutionary Court had sentenced Rezaie to two years and…
Bahram Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2013, authorities arrested Saparov after he was accused of being "…
Arash Nabavi is imprisoned for his religious belief and association.
In August 2023, authorities arrested Nabavi, a Baháʼí citizen. After two months, he was released on bail. …
Pavel Kazadaev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 26, 2023, the Industrial District Court of Barnaul imposed a three-year suspended sentence on Kazadaev for…
Bokurezion Dawit is detained for his religious belief.
In March 2023, Eritrean authorities detained Dawit and took him to Barentu Prison camp for his neutral stand on patriotic issues…
Tewoldemedhin Habtezion is detained for his religious belief and association.
In February 2023, authorities arrested Habtezion because his son would not sing the national anthem and was…
Andemeskel Kidane is detained for his religious belief and association.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Kidane after his two 11-year-old children were expelled from school for…
Yonas Tekeste is detained for his religious belief.
In February 2022, authorities arrested Tekeste for conscientiously objecting to continuing to serve in the military after…
Isak Tekle is detained for his religious belief.
In November 2022, authorities arrested Tekle for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…
Tigist Tekle is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In December 2022, authorities arrested Tekle for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a…
Tekle Yoab is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In November 2022, authorities arrested Yoab and his wife for refusing to give money to the national defense.…
Kdisti Tesfamichael is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2022, authorities arrested Tesfamichael and her husband for refusing to give money to the national…
Tesfay Kiflay is detained for his religious belief and association.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Kiflay because his daughter refused to sing the national anthem and was expelled…
Rimon Yonas is detained for his religious belief.
In October 2022, authorities arrested Yonas for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…
Yanet Yonas is detained for her religious belief.
In December 2022, authorities found and arrested Yonas, a Jehovah's Witness who had gone into hiding during a military…
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…
Sina Shahri is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On January 17, 2022, authorities in Tabriz arrested Shahri at his home reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i.…
Ashyrbay Bekiev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In August or September 2023, Turkmen authorities detained Bekiev after he had been deported from Russia following…
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…
Yevgeny Bushev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 7, 2023, the Kalininsky District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced Bushev to seven years in prison for “…
Aleksey Gerasimov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 7, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Kazan sentenced Gerasimov to six years in prison for “…
Aleksandr Serebryakov is detained for his religious activity and belief.
On September 19, 2023, authorities detained Serebryakov following searches on Jehovah's Witness homes in…
Wangchug Tso is detained for her adherence to a religious figure.
On October 26, 2023, authorities in Dola (Qilian) county, Tsojang (Haibei) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province…
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…
Aleksey Khabarov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 20, 2023, the Porkhov District Court of the Pskov Region sentenced Khabarov to two years and six…
Dmitriy Chausova is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Chausova after searching the homes of several Jehovah's…
Oksana Chausova is under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Chausova after searching the homes of several…
Nikolay Kupriyanskiy is under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Kupriyanskiy after searching the homes of several…
Anton Virich is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 11, 2023, authorities in Uzhur detained Virich and subsequently disappeared him for nine days until friends found…
Tsultrim is imprisoned for his adherence to a religious figure.
In February/March 2023, authorities in Marthang county, Ngaba (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (T&QAP),…
Marina Chaplykina is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 18, 2023, the Novosibirsk District Court sentenced Chaplykina to four years in prison for “…
Valeriy Maletskov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2019, authorities placed Maletskov under house arrest following raids on several Jehovah's Witness…
Hakop Gochumyan is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 15, 2023, authorities in Pardis arrested Gochumyan while he and his family were having dinner at a friend's…
Ervin López is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested López, a priest from the Diocese of León. His arrest came…
Francisco Odorico Castilblanco is detained for his religious belief and religious activity.
On January 2, 2024, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Castilblanco, a seminarian from the…
María Asunción Salgado is detained for her religious activity and association.
On October 7, 2023, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Salgado, along with Father Yesner Cipriano Pineda…
Mina Karami is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In September 2022, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court convicted Karami, an Iranian Baha'i, on charges related to "…
Soroush Iqani is imprisoned for his religious identity.
In June 2023, Branch 1 of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Iqani, an Iranian Baha'i, to two years in prison on charges of "…
Nay Y Blang is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 18, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Blang on accusations including “abusing democratic freedoms” (Art.…
Noushin Mesbah is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2023, Branch 1 of the Mashhad Revolution Court sentenced Mesbah to one year in prison on charges of "…
Aleksandr Chagan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On February 29, 2024, the Central District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara Region sentenced Chagan to eight years in…
Stanislav Kim is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Kim to eight years and two months in prison for “organizing…
Vitaliy Zhuk is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Zhuk to eight years and four months in prison for “organizing…
Nikolai Polevodov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On June 20, 2024, the Industrial District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Polevodov to eight years and six months in prison for “…
Frutos Constantino Valle Salmerón is detained for his religious association and leadership role.
On July 26, 2024, Nicaraguan police arrested Salmerón, a priest and the administrator of…
Raúl Francisco Villegas is detained for his religious association and leadership role.
On August 2, 2024, the authorities arrested Villegas, the parish priest of the Nuestra Señora de…
Carmen María Sáenz Martínez is under house arrest for her religious affiliation.
On August 10, 2024, authorities arrested Martínez, who worked at the Diocese of Matagalpa on marriage…
Lesbia Gutiérrez is under house arrest for her religious association.
On August 10, 2024, authorities arrested Gutiérrez, the former coordinator of the Urban and Rural Financial Support…
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…
Mojdeh Falahi is detained for her religious belief.
In September 2024, Iranian security authorities arrested Falahi, a Christian convert, in Shiraz. Falahi reportedly went to the Shiraz…
Mazaher Heydari is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In June 2024, Iranian security forces arrested Heydari, a Gonabadi Sufi who has advocated for women’s rights…
Cai Yingge is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Cai amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Chen Aishe is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, detained Chen amid mass arrests of Church of Almighty God…
Wang Zhongqiu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 4, 2021, authorities in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province detained Wang because of his religious activities with…
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…