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Jamaloddin Khanjani was detained for his religious association.
On August 13, 2023, security forces apprehended Khanjani and his daughter Maria Khanjani and took them to Evin…
Pezhman Shahriari was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 17, 2018, authorities arrested Shahriari in Shiraz under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly denied…
Mahboub Habibi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 17, 2018, authorities arrested Habibi in Shiraz under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly denied access…
Farzad Homayouni was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 27, 2017, authorities arrested Homayouni and four others in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He…
Adel Naimi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In July 2012, intelligence agents arrested Naimi following a raid on his home. Authorities confiscated several…
Azita Rafizadeh was imprisoned for her religious association and for providing religious education.
In the years prior to her arrest, Rafizadeh had been questioned by…
Hassan Sarvestani Momtaz was imprisoned for his religious association and for providing religious education.
In the years prior to his arrest, Momtaz, an educator, had been questioned…
Manouchehr Rahmani was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On January 24, 2017, authorities arrested Rahmani in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He was reportedly…
Sohrab Naghipour was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 27, 2017, authorities arrested Naghipour and four others in Isfahan under unclear circumstances. He…
Negin Ghadamian was imprisoned for her religious association and for providing religious education.
In the years prior to her arrest, Ghadamian, an educator, had been questioned by…
Vahed Kholousi was imprisoned for his religious belief and education rights and human rights activism.
In February 2010, authorities arrested Kholousi reportedly in relation to his…
Farhad Fahandezh was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2012, intelligence officials arrested Fahandezh and several other Bahá’ís of Gorgan and the…
Payman Koushk-Baghi was imprisoned for his religious association and for providing religious education.
On February 28, 2016, authorities arrested Koushk-Baghi reportedly without…
Afshin Bulbulan was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Bulbulan following a raid on his home. His arrest coincided with…
Ali Sani was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Sani following a raid on his home. His arrest coincided with…
Anoush Rayeneh was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Rayeneh following a raid on his home. His arrest coincided with a…
Bahareh Zayni was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Zayni following a raid on her home. Her arrest coincided with a…
Foujan Rashidi was imprisoned for her religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Rashidi following a raid on her home. Her arrest coincided…
Farhang Sahba is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Sahba following a raid on his home. He was then …
Milad Davardan was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Davardan following a raid on his home. His arrested coincided with…
Saham Armin was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.
On September 23, 2018, intelligence agents arrested Armin following a raid on his home. His arrest coincided with a…
Yalda Firouzian was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On April 30, 2019, authorities arrested Firouzian and took her to an undisclosed location after raiding her home.…
Behnam Eskandarian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 30, 2019, authorities arrested Eskandarian and took him to an undisclosed location after police…
Samin Maghsoudi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 21, 2017, authorities arrested Maghsoudi under unclear circumstances. She was reportedly denied…
Ardeshir Fanaian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 30, 2019, authorities arrested Fanaian and took him to…
Ho Duc Hoa was imprisoned in relation to his religious activity.
In late July/early August 2011, authorities arrested Hoa, a Catholic social activist, journalist, and community…
Nadeem James is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In July 2016, authorities arrested James after he was accused of forwarding allegedly blasphemous content to a friend.…
Shehzad Masih is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In July 2017, authorities arrested 16-year-old Masih after a coworker and another individual accused him of…
Stan Swamy was detained and died in state custody for his civil society work helping religious communities.
On October 8, 2020, the National Investigation Agency arrested Swamy, a Jesuit…
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. …
Runh was imprisoned for his religious activity.
In 2012, authorities arrested Runh, a house-church leader, in relation to his activities with the unregistered Ha Mon Catholic Church. …
A Kuin was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2013, authorities arrested Kuin, a member of the unregistered Ha Mon Catholic Church, after he attended a prayer…
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. …
A Tik was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2015, authorities arrested Tik for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. …
Mariyum Lal was detained for blasphemy.
On April 9, 2021, authorities arrested Lal, who is a nurse, and her coworker, Newsh Arooj, after an incident at their workplace. According to…
Newsh Arooj was detained for blasphemy.
On April 9, 2021, authorities arrested Arooj, who is a nurse, and her coworker, Mariyum Lal, after an incident at their workplace. According to…
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…
Luka Binniyat was detained for his reporting on religious groups and religious freedom conditions.
On November 4, 2021, authorities arrested Binniyat, a journalist for the Epoch…
Run was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2013, authorities arrested Run after authorities accused him of using his affiliation with the Ha Mon Catholic Church, a…
Dinh Kuh was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2015, authorities arrested Kuh for participating in a religious group not approved by the government. …
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…
James Su Zhimin was forcibly disappeared for his religious leadership role and activity.
In March 1996, Su, an unregistered bishop in Baoding, Hebei Province, was arrested…
Apollinaris Darmawan was imprisoned for his religious expression.
In August 2020, Bandung police arrested Darmawan after he was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam on social…
Mahnaz Jan Nesar was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Nesar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Maral Rasti was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasti and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Arash Rasekhi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasekhi and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Mehrallah Afshar was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Afshar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Nasim Ghanvatian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Ghanvatian and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Arezou Mohammadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Mohammadi and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in…
Atieh Salehi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Salehi and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in Birjand.…
Roya Melaki was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Melaki and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in Birjand. The…
Ataollah Melaki was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Melaki and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in…
Farid Zirgi Moghaddam is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In August 2019, intelligence agents detained Moghaddam in Birjand reportedly in relation to posts he made about…
Saeedeh Khozui was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2022, Khozui was reportedly arrested after appearing at a courthouse.
On May 24,…
Sahba Farnoush was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 15, 2015, security forces arrested Farnoush from his home in Tehran reportedly on the 200th anniversary of…
Liu Honggeng is imprisoned for his religious leadership role and for practicing his religion without state-approval.
On May 7, 2015, authorities in Baoding city, Hebei province,…
Amin Zolfaghari was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 21, 2020, intelligence agents arrested Zolfaghari at his home in Yazd.
On June 23, 2020, Zolfaghari was…
Mitra Bandi Amirabadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 30, 2020, security forces arrested Amirabadi in Yazd.
In September 2020, Amirabadi was…
Hiwa Yazdan Mehdi Abadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 30, 2020, security forces arrested Abadi in Yazd.
In September 2020, Abadi was released on bail…
Samin Ehsani was imprisoned in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In August 2011, authorities arrested Ehsani, a children's rights activist, after she went to court to resolve…
Shaghayegh Khaneh-Zarin was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On June 26, 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Khaneh-Zarin and two others and took…
Negar Ighani was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On June 26, 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Ighani and two others and took them to an…
Zhila Sharafi Nasrabadi was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In June 2022, security forces in Shiraz arrested Nasrabadi and two others and took them to an…
Fardin Naddafian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2019, Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolution Court reportedly sentenced Naddafian to one year in prison on…
Hayedeh Ram is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2017, intelligence agents of Bushehr province arrested Ram and several other Baha’is.
On an…
Sholeh Shahidi was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Shahidi and her two sons in Bojnurd, North Khorasan province,…
Faran Senai was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Senai, his mother, and his brother in Bojnurd, North Khorasan province…
Shayan Senai was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Senai, his mother, and his brother in Bojnurd, North Khorasan…
Haleh Gholami was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On January 27, 2017, authorities arrested Gholami, a child rights activist, reportedly in relation to her…
Alhan Hashemi was detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their being…
Hanan Hashemi was detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their being…
Niloufar Hosseini was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Hashemi and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their…
Behieh Manavipour is detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Manavipour and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their…
Mishak Manavipour is detained for their religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2022, security forces arrested Manavipour and four others in Shiraz reportedly in relation to their…
Shahnaz Sabet is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 1, 2019, authorities arrested Sabet from her home reportedly in relation to her being Baha'i.
…
Shahram Najaf-Tomaraei was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 25, 2015, authorities arrested Najaf-Tomaraei reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i. They…
Nematollah Shadpour was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Shadpour, reportedly in relation…
Nima Shadpour was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Shadpour, reportedly in relation to their…
Shafigh Eslami was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 19, 2022, authorities in Yazd arrested three individuals, including Eslami, reportedly in relation to their…
Behnam Momtaz was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Momtaz in Qazvin after raiding his home.
On August 11, 2022,…
Saha Sabeti was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Sabeti in Sari after raiding her home.
On August 14, 2022,…
Saman Ostovar is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Ostovar in Karaj after raiding his home.
On December 13,…
Afsaneh Emami was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On February 2, 2019, authorities arrested Emami and searched her home, confiscating books, electronics, and other…
Hamid Naseri was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 11, 2019, authorities arrested Naseri reportedly in front of his business.
On April 26, 2019, …
Saeed Naseri was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 11, 2019, authorities arrested Naseri from his home in Tehran.
On April 17, 2019, Naseri was…
Afif Naeimi is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Naeimi in Karaj after raiding his home.
On December 13, 2022,…
Fariba Kamalabadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Kamalabadi in Tehran after raiding her home.
In…
Houman Khoshnam was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Khoshnam and several other Baha'is in relation to their being…
Elham Salmanzadeh was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On October 16, 2018, authorities arrested Salmanzadeh in relation to her being Baha'i.
On December…
Payam Shabani was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Shabani and several other Baha'is in relation to their being Baha'i…
Kianoush Salmanzadeh was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Salmanzadeh and several other Baha'is in relation to…
Soroush Agahi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In November 2018, authorities arrested Agahi in relation to his being Baha'i.
In January 2019,…
Parvan Manavi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On October 16, 2018, authorities arrested Manavi in relation to his being Baha'i.
On December 16,…
Jamileh Pakrou was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Pakrou and several other Baha'is in relation to their being Baha'i…
Peyman Manavi was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2018, authorities arrested Manavi and several other Baha'is in relation to their…
Neda Shabani was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2018, authorities arrested Shabani in relation to her being Baha'i.
In…
Farid Alavi is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 2, 2022, authorities arrested Alavi during a state-run operation to demolish Baha'i homes and confiscate Baha'i…
Mahboubeh Misaghian was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 1, 2020, authorities reportedly arrested Misaghian and searched her home.
On June…