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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…
Hu Shigen was imprisoned in relation to his religious activity and religious leadership role.
On July 10, 2015, Hu, a pro-…
Mohammad Roghangir was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
in October 2012, authorities arrested Roghangir, a member of the Church of Iran, after authorities raided a…
Youcef Nadarkhani was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, intelligence officials in Rasht…
Majid Kashan was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On November 18, 2017, authorities arrested Kashan at a house-church. Kashan is believed to have been originally…
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…
Shahnam Jazbani was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2012, authorities arrested Jazbani and several other Bahá’ís of Gorgan and the surrounding areas of…
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…
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…
Bakhrom Kholmatov was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On April 10, 2017, authorities Kholmatov, pastor of the Sonmin Sonbogym (Full Gospel) Protestant Church, following a raid…
Aramais Avakian was imprisoned in relation to his religious identity.
On September 4, 2015, authorities arrested Avakian, a Christian fish farmer, after being accusing him of being an…
Naser Navard Goltapeh is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In February 2025, authorities detained Goltapeh and other Christians without charge and sent him to Evin Prison. …
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…
Ju Dianhong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In late 2016 (around September), Yunnan authorities detained Ju and several colleagues. They were…
Liang Qin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In late 2016 (around September), Yunnan authorities detained Liang and several colleagues. They were…
Mohammad Ali Mosayebzadeh was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Mosayebzadeh, a member of the Church of Iran, and several…
Mohammad Reza Omidi was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Omidi, a member of the Church of Iran, and several others…
Zaman Fadaei was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, authorities arrested Fadaei, a member of the Church of Iran, and several others while performing…
Ebrahim Firouzi was detained for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 8, 2021, authorities arrested Firouzi again after he released videos detailing the authorities'…
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…
Mahrokh Ghanbari was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In July 2019, authorities reportedly arrested Ghanbari. She was later released on bail. She was reportedly…
Fatemeh Bakhtari was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In May 2017, authorities arrested Bakhtari and her husband, Zaman Fadaei, under unclear circumstances.…
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…
Leah Sharibu is in EPC captivity for refusing to renounce her faith.
On February 19, 2018, the Islamic State - West Africa Province (…
Hamid Kamal Mohammad bin Haydara was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 3, 2013, authorities linked to the Houthi-run National Security Bureau arrested…
Sawan Masih was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
On March 9, 2013, authorities arrested Masih, a street sweeper, after he was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a…
Shafqat Emmanuel was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In July 2013, authorities arrested Emmanuel and his wife, Shagufta Kausar, for allegedly sending blasphemous texts.…
Shagufta Kausar was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In July 2013, authorities Kausar and her husband, Shafqat Emmanuel, for allegedly sending blasphemous texts. The…
Sunny Mushtaq is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In June 2019, authorities arrested 19-year-old Sunny Mushtaq and his friend, Noman Asghar, for receiving images…
Noman Asghar is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Asghar and his friend, Sunny Mushtaq, for receiving images deemed blasphemous via WhatsApp…
Ashfaq Masih is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In June 2017, authorities arrested Masih, a bicycle mechanic, following a dispute with a customer. Authorities charged Masih…
Asif Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In August 2017, authorities arrested 16-year-old Masih after he was accused of setting a Qur'an and another religious booklet on fire. A mob…
Patras Masih was detained for blasphemy.
On February 19, 2018, authorities arrested Masih after he was accused of posting a perceived-blasphemous image on Facebook a few days before.…
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.…
Ro Mah Pla was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In 2013, authorities arrested Pla after accusing him of taking direction from Montagnards overseas to spread Degar…
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. …
A Dao was imprisoned for his religious activity and religious freedom advocacy.
On August 18, 2016, authorities arrested Dao, the pastor of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ…
Y Yich was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On May 13, 2013, authorities arrested Yich, a pastor in the Degar Protestant Church, after accusing him of spreading Degar Protestantism, a…
Sung A Khua was imprisoned in relation to his religious identity.
On January 2, 2019, Sung was sentenced to two years and two months in prison. Prior to the ruling, Sung and his…
Kamal Naamanian was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Naamanian at a house-church. Other members of the…
Raymond Koh was forcibly disappeared for his religious activity.
On February 13, 2017, fifteen Royal Malaysian Police officers in three…
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…
Imran Ghafur Masih was imprisoned for blasphemy.
On July 1, 2009, authorities arrested Masih after he was accused of burning a Qur'an. Following the accusation, a mob attacked Masih…
Zafar Bhatti was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
On July 22, 2012, authorities arrested Bhatti, a pastor, after he was accused of sending text messages insulting the Prophet…
Humayun Faisal was detained for blasphemy.
On May 24, 2015, authorities arrested Faisal after he was accused of burning newspapers containing Qur'anic texts on them. Faisal was reportedly…
Yaqoob Bashir Masih is imprisoned for alleged blasphemy.
In June 2015, authorities arrested Masih after he was accused of burning a booklet containing Qur'an text and was harmed by a mob.…
Nabeel Masih was imprisoned for blasphemy.
On September 18, 2016, authorities arrested Masih - a minor at the time - after he was accused of posting content on Facebook insulting the Kaaba.…
Asif Stephen was detained for blasphemy.
On August 12, 2017, authorities arrested Stephen - a minor at the time - after he was accused of burning pages of the Qur'an. A mob…
Stephen Masih was detained for blasphemy.
In March 2019, authorities arrested Masih after he was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. According to reports, the accusation…
Saleem Masih was detained for blasphemy.
On June 15, 2019, authorities arrested Masih after a relative accused him of burning pages of the Qur'an. He was reportedly charged with "…
Shahbaz Masih was detained for blasphemy.
On December 27, 2019, authorities arrested Masih and his friend, Muhammad Ishaq, and charged them with "desecrating the Qur'an" (Sec. 295-B PPC).…
Anwar Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
On June 2, 2020, authorities arrested Masih following a dispute with some Muslim family members. Authorities, who were called to mediate,…
Sohail Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In August 2020, authorities arrested Masih after he was accused of posting content on Facebook deemed to be blasphemous. Authorities charged…
David Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In August 2020, authorities in Nowshera arrested Masih after pages torn from the Qur'an were discovered in a nearby drain. Authorities…
Jang Moon Seok was imprisoned for his religious activity.
In November 2014, Seok, a deacon, was abducted and transferred from China to a prison in North Korea for his evangelism,…
Denis Rosabal was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 6, 2021, authorities arrested Rosabal, a mechanic and the pianist and music director for the…
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…
Chen Yu is imprisoned in relation to his religiously oriented business.
On September 13, 2019, public security officials from Linhai City, Taizhou Municipality, Zhejiang Province…
Tan Defu was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 10, 2018, public security officials in Chengdu municipality, Sichuan province, detained Tan, an elder…
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…
Joo Gwang Ho is detained for his religious activity.
On an unspecified date, authorities in China arrested Joo Gwang Ho for his evangelism to ethnic-Chinese citizens and North Korean…
Chung Yong Cheol is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On an unspecified date, Chinese authorities arrested 77 North Koreans, including Chung Yong Cheol, for studying the Bible.
In…
Chang Man Sik is detained for his religious activity.
In July 2000, authorities in China arrested Chang Man Sik for his religious activities. Chang Man Sik had previously escaped…
Lee Soo Gil was executed for his religious activity.
In December 2001, authorities in China arrested Lee Soo Gil for evangelizing and helping North Korean refugees escape to South Korea. He…
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…
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…
Yarian Sierra Madrigal was under house arrest in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, Madrigal, a pastor from the Berean Baptist Mission in Matanzas, was…
Yéremi Blanco Ramírez was under house arrest in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, authorities detained Ramírez, a pastor from the Berean Baptist Mission in…
Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo was imprisoned in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, Rosales Fajardo, pastor and leader of the Monte de Sion Independent Church in…
Jorge Naranjo was under house arrest for his religious identity.
On July 11, 2021, authorities arrested Naranjo, a member and the administrator of the Los Pinos Nuevos First…