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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 “…

Arslan Wepayew was detained for his conscientious objection.

In November 2024, authorities arrested Wepayew and placed him in pretrial detention for refusing to perform military service…

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…

Ijaz Hussain is detained for his religious activity.

In May 2025, Pakistani authorities arrested Ijaz Hussain, along with another Ahmadi, Ayaz Hussain, for offering Friday prayers. During…

Ayaz Hussain is detained for his religious activity. 

In May 2025, Pakistani authorities arrested Ayaz Hussain, along with another Ahmadi, Ijaz Hussain, for offering Friday prayers.…

Elgiz Ibrahimov was imprisoned for refusing to serve in the military on religious grounds. 

On July 30, 2025, Judge Qalib Pashayev sentenced 19-year-old Ibrahimov to one year of…

Aleksandr Neverov is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In the winter of 2023, Russian authorities arrested Neverov for participating in Jehovah's Witness meetings, discussing…

Mubarak Sani is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In January 2023, authorities arrested Sani for allegedly distributing Tafseer-e-Sagheer, an Ahmadiyya exegesis of the Qur'an, in…

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…

Bereket Araya is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Araya and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

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…

Amanuel Araya is detained for his religious activity.

In September 2024, authorities detained Araya and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious meeting at…

Keseteberhan Negusse is detained for his religious belief. 

In February 2024, authorities detained Negusse after learning he was a Jehovah's Witness. Negusse, a landlord, had attempted…

Zesani Biniam is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

In November 2024, authorities arrested Biniam at the Asmara Technical School for conscientiously objecting to…

Fitsum Goitom is detained for his 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…

Eyasu Yohannes is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In September 2023, mobilization soldiers arrested Yohannes on the street for conscientiously objecting to compulsory…

Teklu Gebrehiwet is detained for his religious belief and activity.

In November 2022, mobilization soldiers detained Gebrehiwet on the street for conscientiously objecting to compulsory…

Dolshi Yonas is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Yonas and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

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…

Bereket Gebremichael is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In August 2023, mobilization soldiers arrested Gebremichael on the street for conscientiously objecting to…

Amanuel Gebremariam is detained for his religious belief and activity. 

In May 2023, authorities detained Gebremariam on his way home from work for conscientiously objecting to…

Tareke Tesfamariam is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Tesfamariam and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful…

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…

Yevgeniy Abramov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Abramov, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him of organizing activities…

Vladimir Pushkov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Pushkov, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him 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…

Biniam Berhane is detained for his religious activity. 

In September 2024, authorities detained Berhane and 23 other Jehovah's Witnesses, including minors, during a peaceful religious…

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…

Andrey Plekhanov is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Plekhanov, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (…

Anton Novopashin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Novopashin, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"…

Gonkhi Venans Dzhakhi is detained for his religious activity. In March 2025, authorities detained Dzhakhi, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (Art. 282…

Yuriy Pichugin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities detained Pichugin, along with 3 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and charged him with "extremism"  (Art…

Yevgeniy Dodolin is detained for his religious activity. 

In March 2025, authorities arrested Dodolin, along with 5 other Jehovah's Witnesses, and accused him of organizing activities…