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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…
Gulmira Imin is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and protesting against Uyghur treatment.
On July 14, 2009, Imin, web administrator for the Uighur-language website Salkin, was…
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…
Munewwer Rehim is imprisoned for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In April 2017, authorities in Kashgar city, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR…
Buzeynep Abdureshit is imprisoned for her study abroad and ethnoreligious identity.
On March 29, 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
Turnisa Metomur is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity.
In September 2016, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Metomur after…
Ayshemhan Yasin was detained for her ethnoreligious identity and for going on pilgrimage.
In late 2017, authorities in Turpan municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (…
Bahargul Atawulla is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Atawulla for attending an illegal religious…
Horigul Emer is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Emer for attending an illegal religious…
Chimengul Hoshur is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Hoshur for attending an illegal religious…
Buzohre Ziyit is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 9, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Ziyit for attending an illegal religious…
Abdulla Emer is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 28, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Emer for illegally studying scripture. Emer'…
Bahargul Hashim is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On October 28, 2017, authorities reportedly detained Hashim for illegally studying scripture.…
Nurgul is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Nurgul along with…
Muyesser Haji Memet is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity.
In 2018, authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Memet, a doctor. Her detention coincided…
Nurbiye is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2018, authorities in Atush (Atushi) city, Kizilsu (Kezilesu) Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang…
Beyshihan Hoshur is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In March 2018, authorities detained Hoshur and several other elderly women in relation to their…
Patime Sayittursun is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Sayittursun in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar…
Heyrisa Ehmet is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Ehmet in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture,…
Buhelish Nur is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, Nur was detained in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur…
Nurimangul Talip is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, Talip was detained in Tomosteng town, Yarkand (Shache) County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang…
Hawa Musayim was imprisoned for his religious and ethnic identity.
In 2017, public security officials in Kashgar Konasheher (Shufu) County, Kashgar (Kashi) Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur…
Hornisaxan Osman is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Osman and her two sons and sent them to a…
Patem Rozi is imprisoned for her religious activity and religious and ethnic identity.
In 2017, authorities in Hotan (Hetian) Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region…
Shirinay Tohti is detained for her ethnoreligious activity.
In 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Tohti,…
Enise Salih is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In December 2017, authorities in Urumqi Municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Salih. Salih's detention…
Asiye Muhemmet Salih is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In December 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Salih, a Chinese-…
Ayshemqiz Hajim is detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In December 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Haijm and her…
Nezire Muhemmet Salih was detained for her religious scholarship.
On or around December 25, 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained…
Aytorem Turdi is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In November 2017, public security officials in Aksu city, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
Peyzohre Omer is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and religious belief and activity.
On September 5, 2017, public security officials in Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous…
Qelbinur Tohti is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In August 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
Amangul Aydek is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity.
In June 2017, authorities detained Aydek, a food vendor, under unclear circumstances. Her arrest came amid mass detentions of…
Nurnisa Turdi is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities detained Turdi and several of family members and sent them to a "…
Shehide Imin is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities detained Imin and several of family members and sent them to a "political…
Aisha al-Muhajiri is detained for her religious activity.
In February 2021, police raided al-Muhajiri's home in Mecca and detained her for preaching and giving Qur'an lessons at her home.…
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…
Aneeqa Ateeq is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In May 2020, authorities arrested Ateeq after she was accused of circulating sketches of religious figures and other…
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…
Gulfisha Fatima was detained for her religious freedom advocacy.
On April 9, 2020, authorities arrested Fatima, a Muslim student activist, under first information…
Ishrat Jehan was detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On February 26, 2020, authorities arrested Jehan, a former councilor, after accusing her…
Safoora Zargar was detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On April 10, 2020, authorities arrested Zargar, a Muslim student activist and roughly three months pregnant at…
Emerjan is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities detained Emerjan and several of family members and sent them to a "political…
Rahele Ahmadi was imprisoned for her women’s rights activism against compulsory religious veiling.
On July 10, 2019, authorities arrested Ahmadi, an activist against compulsory hijab,…
Yasaman Ariani was imprisoned for her women’s rights activism against compulsory religious veiling.
In April 2019, authorities arrested Ariani for protesting compulsory hijab after she was…
Noushin Jafari was imprisoned for blasphemy.
In August 2019, authorities arrested Jafari, a photojournalist and culture reporter, after accusing her of running a Twitter account that…
Shakila Monfared is imprisoned for blasphemy.
In August 2020, security forces arrested Monfared as she was leaving home, reportedly in relation to her social media activism.
In…
Lina Alsharif was detained in relation to religious freedom advocacy.
In May 2021, officials from the Saudi Presidency of State Security raided Alsharif’s home in Riyadh, arrested her, and…
Buheliqiemu Abula was detained for her ethnoreligious identity.
In March 2022, Saudi Arabian authorities detained Abula, a Uyghur Muslim, and threatened her with deportation to China.
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Renagul Gheni is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and religious activity.
In 2018, authorities in Cherchen…
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…
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…
Kamile Wayit is detained in relation to her ethnoreligious identity and her brother's human rights work.
On December 12, 2022, authorities in Atush (Atushi) city, Kizilsu (Kezilesu) Kyrgyz…
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 “…
Lina Lutfiawati is imprisoned for her religious expression.
In May 2023, police charged Lutfiawati with "disseminating information aimed at inflicting hatred or dissension on individuals and…
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…
Seylihan Rozi is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In early 2017, she was detained for teaching verses from the Quran to her two sons and a neighbor.
In late 2018,…
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…