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Mariya Troshina was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 7, 2018, authorities arrested Troshina and charged her with “participating in the activities of a…
Nataliya Sorokina was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 7, 2018, authorities arrested Sorokina and charged her with “participating in the activities…
Snezhana Bazhenova was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On August 19, 2018, authorities arrested Bazhenova, an educator, after police raided her home.
On…
Milen Isaac is detained for her religious activity.
In June 2009, authorities arrested Isaac while she was attending a religious meeting.
Faiza Seid is detained for her religious activity.
In June 2009, authorities detained Seid for attending a religious meeting.
Liya Hidru was detained for her religious activity.
On April 27, 2014, authorities detained Hidru for attending a religious meeting.
On December 4, 2020, Hidru was released,…
Wintana Shewaseged is detained for her religious activity.
In April 2014, Eritrean authorities detained Shewaseged for attending a religious meeting.
Mikaal Taddesse was detained for her religious activity.
In April 2014, Eritrean authorities detained Taddesse for attending a religious meeting.
In February 2025, Taddesse was…
Emnet Woldai is detained for her religious activity.
In April 2014, authorities detained Woldai for attending a religious meeting.
Senait Berhane is detained for her religious activity.
In April 2014, Eritrean authorities detained Berhane for attending a religious meeting.
Habtemariam Meraf Seyum was detained for her religious activity.
On October 25, 2015, authorities detained Meraf Seyum.
On December 4, 2020, Meraf Seyum was released,…
Samuol Dawit is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In March 2023, authorities detained Dawit for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…
Leah Sharibu is in EPC captivity for refusing to renounce her faith.
On February 19, 2018, the Islamic State - West Africa Province (…
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…
Shagufta Kiran is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In July 2021, authorities arrested Kiran after she was accused of forwarding content deemed blasphemous via WhatsApp in September 2020.…
Ruth Sitepu was forcibly disappeared for her religious identity.
On November 30, 2016, Sitepu and her husband, Joshua Hilmy, were disappeared at the hands of authorities or…
Olga Ivanov is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 9, 2020, authorities arrested Ivanov following raids by security officials in Astrakhan on the…
Anna Safronova is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 2, 2021, authorities detained Safronova after searching her residence. The month prior, authorities…
Savita Singh was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities arrested Singh and her husband, Nandha Nathaniel, after they were accused of…
Kumtu Vasuniya was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Vasuniya and five others, including her husband, after they were…
Saju Ben is detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to forcibly…
Sama Ben was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to…
Ranga Ben was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to…
Sara Ahmadi was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Ahmadi and her husband, Homayoun Zhaveh, as they were on vacation with…
Zarvia Pervaiz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In April 2022, 12-year-old Pervaiz, a Christian girl from Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, was abducted by a 40-year-old man…
Elena Nikulina is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 2, 2021, authorities charge Nikulina with “recruiting…a person in the activities of an…
Rhoda Jatau was detained for blasphemy.
On May 20, 2022, authorities in Bauchi state arrested Jatau after riots broke out in response to a perceived blasphemous message she sent on…
Lubov Galitsina is under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On August 16, 2022, authorities in Novocherkassk arrested Galitsina after she was summoned for…
Lyudmila Shchekoldina was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 23, 2022, the Pavlovsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Shchekoldina to four years and one month…
Mariya Karpova was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On June 1, 2019, authorities detained several Jehovah's Witnesses, including Karpova, following…
Leysan Bochkareva was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On January 19, 2020, authorities in Kazan detained Bochkareva after searching the homes of several…
Tatyana Obizhestvit was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On January 19, 2020, authorities in Kazan detained Obizhestvit after searching the homes of several…
Natalya Sharapova is detained for her religious belief and activity.
On October 6, 2022, authorities in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Territory, arrested Sharapova following searches on the homes…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 “…
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…
Narges Nasri was detained for her religious conversion.
In November 2024, Iranian intelligence authorities detained Nasri after raiding her Tehran home, during which they confiscated…
Letebrhan Tesfay is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, police officers arrested 85-year-old Letebrhan Tesfay while raiding her home as she hosted a peaceful…
Sidon Tekeste is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2024, authorities arrested Tekeste at school for respectfully refusing to contribute to a political fund.…
Berekti Habte is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, police officers arrested Habte while she attended a peaceful religious gathering. Authorities confined her in…
Zahra Gholami is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
In December 2023, several dozen Iranian intelligence agents raided Gholami's house church in Shahriar and…
Aida Najaflou is imprisoned for her religious conversion and activity.
In February 2025, Iranian authorities arrested Aida, a Christian convert, along with four other Christians for…
Maria Shahbaz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
On July 26, 2025,13-year-old Shahbaz was abducted by a 30-year-old man near her home, forcibly converted to Islam, and…
Parvin Ghadiani is detained for her religious conversion and activity.
In January 2024, Iranian security forces arrested Ghadiani, a Christian convert from Islam, for "proselytizing…
Alina Khalid was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In June 2024, 14-year-old Khalid, a Christian girl from Islamabad, was abducted from her home by a neighbor. She was later…
Jessica Iqbal was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In April 2025, Iqbal, a Christian girl from Lahore, was abducted from her home by a neighbor. Her father subsequently filed…
Victim NP-0005 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0005 for having contact with a religious person and saying the word "…
Victim NP-0022 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2011, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0022 in Nampo, South Pyongan Province, and sentenced her to prison at…
Xin Ruoyu is detained for her religious activity.
In or around July 2024, authorities detained Xin for developing an app that gives users access to Christian hymns and devotional…
Hao Zhiwei is imprisoned for her religious activity and leadership role.
In July 2019, authorities detained Hao Zhiwei, pastor of Egangqiao Church, for collecting tithes and offerings…
Mary Mohammadi is forcibly disappeared for her religious belief.
In February 2026, Iranian Ministry of Intelligence authorities disappeared Mohammadi, a Christian convert and human…
Tigisti Tsehaye is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Tsehaye and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…
Hideat Gebrehiwet is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwet and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…
Selam Tsehaye is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Tsehaye and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…
Hiwet Isak is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Isak and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…
Okba Amare is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Amare and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…
Tsige Ghebremedhin is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Ghebremedhin and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…
Almaz Gebrehiwot is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwot for refusing to join or contribute financially to the ruling…
Elen Goitom is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Goitom and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…
Hadassa Zerisenay is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Zerisenay and 16 other Jehovah's Witnesses during a peaceful religious meeting in a…
Almaz Gebrehiwot is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2024, authorities detained Gebrehiwot for refusing to join or contribute financially to the ruling political…
Selam Tewelde is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In January 2024, authorities arrested Tewelde for refusing to financially support political movements as a Jehovah's…
Saba Tekle is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Tekle and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…
Aysulu Tastaybekova is detained for her religious activity.
In March 2025, authorities arrested Tastaybekova, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing…
Tatyana Dodolina is detained for her religious activity.
In March 2025, authorities arrested Dodolina, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing activities…
Yana Abramova is detained for her religious activity.
In March 2025, authorities arrested Abramova, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused her of organizing activities of…
Genet Zeray is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Zeray and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…
Okba Dawit is detained for her religious activity.
In September 2024, authorities detained Dawit and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting…
Victim NP-0238 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2009, North Korean officials arrested NP-0238 after China refouled her for meeting with Christians to study Christianity.…
Victim NP-0279 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0279, a minor at the time, along with 18 other victims, for her…
Victim NP-0076 is detained for her religious conversion and activity.
In 2014, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0076, confined her at Musan County MSS Detention Center…
Victim NP-0115 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2010, Ministry of People's Security officials imprisoned NP-0115 at Chongori Re-education Camp No. 12 for reciting the…
Victoria Brazhnik is detained for her religious activity.
In 2025, authorities charged Brazhnik with financing "an organization designated as undesirable" (Art. 284.1 RCC) due to her…
Victim NP-0401 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0401, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0402 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0402, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0407 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0407, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0403 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0403, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0404 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0404, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0405 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0405, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0406 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0406, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0408 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0408, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0409 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0409, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0410 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0410, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0416 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0416, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0411 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0411, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0412 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0412, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0414 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0414, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0415 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0415, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0417 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0417, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an…
Victim NP-0413 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2004, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0413, along with 18 other victims, for her involvement with an underground…
Victim NP-0044 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2008, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0044 for attending an underground Christian church and trying to escape…
Victim NP-0030 is detained for her religious activity and association.
In 2006, Ministry of State Security officials arrested NP-0030, along with her family, in Unhung County,…
Victim NP-0098 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2002, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0098 after she was refouled from China, where she had interacted with…
Victim NP-0097 is detained for her religious activity.
In 2002, Ministry of State Security officials detained NP-0097 after she was refouled from China, where she had interacted with…
Victim NP-0116 is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In 2010, North Korean authorities detained NP-0116 after she was refouled from China, where she had attended a Christian church…