Shahrouz Esmaeili is detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least …
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Ghadir Rahimi was detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least 30 Yarsanis, including Rahimi…
Hamid Gorgin was detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least 30 Yarsanis, including Gorgin, as…
Mehr-Ali Hemmati was detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least 30 Yarsanis, including Hemmati,…
Nemat Pourvali was detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least 30 Yarsanis, including Pourvali,…
Enrique Martínez was detained for his religious leadership role.
On October 13, 2022, authorities reportedly violently arrested Martínez, the parish priest of St. Martha’s Church in…
Nasim Kashani Nejad was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 21, 2022, authorities in Shiraz took into custody Nejad and sent her to Adel-Abad Prison to…
Seyyed-Karam Abbasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On December 1, 2022, authorities in Saveh reportedly beat and arrested Abbasi, a Yarsani…
Syeed-Amin Abbasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On or around November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Abbasi, his brother Seyyed-Soroush…
Seyyed-Soroush Abbasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On or around November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Abbasi, his brother Syeed-Amin…
Rooha Imani was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On December 4, 2022, authorities in Kerman reportedly arrested Imani reportedly in relation to her being Baha'i.…
Firoozeh Soltan Mohammadi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On December 4, 2022, authorities in Kerman reportedly arrested Mohammadi reportedly in relation to her…
Hkalam Samson was imprisoned for his religious activity and religious leadership role.
On December 4, 2022, authorities arrested Samson, a pastor and advisor to the Kachin…
Vesal Momtazi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On December 6, 2022, authorities in Rasht arrested Momtazi in relation to his being Baha'i.
On an unspecified date…
Farbod Alavi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On December 4, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Alavi in relation to his being Baha'i. He was sent to Evin…
Faraz Haghighatjoo was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On December 10, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Haghighatjoo in relation to his being Baha'i. He…
Pouya Nowroozi was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On December 11, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nowroozi in relation to his being Baha'i.…
Mansour Safayi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On December 12, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Safayi after summoning him.
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Siavash Hayati was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Hayati alongside other other Yarsani…
Kaki Farzad Almasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Almasi alongside other other…
Mona Ghodrat was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd reportedly arrested Ghodrat in relation to her being Baha'i.…
Bardia Basiri was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On December 17, 2022, authorities in Tehran reportedly arrested Basiri in relation to his being Baha'i.…
Massoud Momtaz was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On December 10, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Momtaz in relation to his being Baha'i. Authorities…
Anahita Khademi was detained for practicing her religion as a convert.
On January 3, 2023, authorities in Bandar Anzali reportedly arrested Khademi after summoning her. She was…
Yashar Rasti was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On January 4, 2023, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Rasti in relation to his being Baha'i. Authorities…
Abdolhamid Masoumi Tehrani was detained in relation to criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On October 16, 2022, authorities in Tehran reportedly arrested Tehrani, an ayatollah…
Siamak Honarvar was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 6, 2021, authorities reportedly arrested Honarvar alongside other Baha'is for their religious identity…
Saeed Ettehad was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 6, 2021, authorities reportedly arrested Ettehad alongside other Baha'is for their religious identity.…
Reyhaneh Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting…
Ghazal Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting nationwide protests…
Matin Gorji was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On January 8, 2023, authorities in Qaemshahr reportedly arrested Gorji, a Baha'i. Authorities…
Serhiy Karpenko was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On December 12, 2022, Russian soldiers detained Karpenko, pastor of the Vefil (Bethel) Protestant Church in…
Dmitriy Zagulin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 19, 2022, the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced Zagulin to three…
Aleksandr Votyakov was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On December 14, 2022, authorities in Izhevsk detained Votyakov after searching his home.…
Hani Gibran was detained for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On June 4, 2022, police arrested Gibran after he posted about the targeting of the Coptic Christian community on…
Oscar Benavidez was imprisoned for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On August 14, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Benavidez, a priest, after he performed mass. …
Sonam Gyatso was imprisoned for his adherence to a religious figure.
On April 3, 2021, authorities in Aba (Ngaba) county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (T&QAP), Sichuan,…
Gratia Pello was imprisoned for his religious expression.
In December 2022, authorities in Surabaya, East Java, reportedly arrested Pello, a professor at a Christian theological school…
Sara Mottaghi is detained for blasphemy.
On January 15, 2023, Iranian authorities raided the home of Mattaghi, a poet, for writing about an ancient Iranian day celebrating women. After…
Wang Shunping was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Wang, a…
Nu Sangdeng was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Nu …
San Luobo was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including San after…
Hua Xiuxia was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Hua after…
Dong Mengru was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Dong…
Taras Kuzio was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 11, 2021, authorities in Yalta, Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Kuzio after accusing him of…
Yegor Pogrebnyak was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On March 5, 2023, authorities in Vladivostok detained of several individuals, including Pogrebnyak, and searched their…
Kishta Tutinova was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On February 28, 2023, authorities in Elista detained Tutinova after searching her home and confiscating a…
Anwar Kenneth was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In 2001, authorities reportedly arrested Kenneth after he was accused of writing letters perceived as blasphemous towards…
Aleksey Ukhov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 22, 2020, authorities in Sovetskaya Gavan detained Ukhov after searching his home. Investigators accused…
Jahongir Ulugmurodov was imprisoned for his religious activities.
On an unspecified date, authorities detained Ulugmurodov for downloading and sharing a religious song with some classmates…
Jaime Iván Montesinos Sauceda was detained in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On May 23, 2023, police arrested Montesinos Sauceda, the parish priest of San Juan…
Eugenio Rodríguez Benavides is detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 20, 2023, police arrested Rodríguez Benavides, parish priest of Divina…
Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrez was detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 22, 2023, police arrested Guevara Gutiérrez, parish priest of Estelí…
Ali Ahmed Tariq was detained for blasphemy.
On April 27, 2023, police arrested Tariq, a lawyer, after receiving a complaint that he used the name "Syed" …
Stanislav Moskvitin was imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
On March 13, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Omsk sentenced Moskvitin, the the pastor of the New…
Nikolai Bogoslavsky is imprisoned for his religious affiliation.
In April 2023, the City Court of Anapa sentenced Bogoslavsky, pastor of the Evangelical Christ the Savior Church, to 1…
Nathasha Edirisooriya was detained for blasphemy.
On May 27, 2023, police arrested and detained Edirisooriya after receiving a complaint that she made jokes insulting to Buddhism and…
Yurii Herashchenko was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On March 22, 2023, Russian authorities arrested Herashchenko, a resident of Crimea, Ukraine, after accusing…
Sergei Parfenovich was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On September 28, 2022, Russian authorities in Krasnogvardeiskoe, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Parfenovich…
Fernando Zamora Silva was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 9, 2023, police detained Zamora Silva, a Catholic priest and the chancellor of the Diocese of Siuna…
Foad Shaker was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Shaker, at the residence of Shahram…
Shahram Fallah was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Fallah, at Fallah's residence. The…
Yekta Fallah was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Fallah, at the residence of Shahram…
Behnam Pour-Ahmadi was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Pour-Ahmadi, at the residence of…
Paridokht Shojaei was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Shojaei, at the residence of…
Shiva Kashani-Nejad was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2023, security forces from Ministry of Intelligence reportedly arrested Kashani-Nejad from…
Artem Velichko was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On February 14, 2023, authorities in Saransk arrested Velichko and transferred him to a detention center after…
Maria Khanjani was detained or her religious association.
On August 13, 2023, security forces apprehended Khanjani and her father Jamaloddin Khanjani and took them to…
Niusha Badiei Sabet was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 15, 2023, authorities in Babol, Mazandaran province, arrested Sabet and Suzan Eid Mohammadzadegan at…
Suzan Eid Mohammadzadegan was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 15, 2023, authorities in Babol, Mazandaran province, arrested Mohammadzadegan and Niusha…
Anisa Fanaian was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 21, 2023, security forces arrested Fanaian at her home in Semnan City. Authorities reportedly conducted…
Shabnam Tebianian was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 21, 2023, security forces arrested Tebianian in Semnan City. Authorities reportedly conducted a thorough…
Osman José Amador Guillén is detained for his religious activity and belief.
On September 8, 2023, police arrested Amador, a parish priest in Wiwilí, late at night while he was…
Vladimir Balabkin was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 13, 2023, the Belogorsk District Court sentenced Balabkin to four years in prison for “…
Anooshavan Avedian was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 21, 2020, agents with the Ministry of Intelligence Service arrested Avedian, a house church leader, after…
Julio Ricardo Norori is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Norori, a priest at the…
Iván Centeno is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Iván Centeno, a priest at the…
Cristóbal Gadea is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Cristóbal Gadea, a priest…
Álvaro Toledo is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 5, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Álvaro Toledo, a priest at…
Ramón Esteban Angulo Reyes is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 8, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Ramón Esteban…
Daniil Smal was detained for refusing to serve in the military on religious grounds.
On May 17, 2023, conscription authorities summoned Smal to the district conscription office of Rudny,…