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Khunar Agayev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 23, 2021, authorities arrested Agayev for meeting to study the writings of Said Nursi. Authorities accused him…
Aydar Sageyev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 23, 2021, authorities arrested Sageyev for meeting to study the writings of Said Nursi. Authorities…
Mukhammadi Mukharramov is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In 2016, authorities arrested Mukharramov, an imam, and accused him of teaching Salafism, a banned school…
Ernes Seytosmanov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 9, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several individuals, including …
Badr Nader Al-Mashari is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In July 2023, authorities detained Al-Mashari, a prominent cleric who criticized the Saudi government's sponsorship…
Bahram Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2013, authorities arrested Saparov after he was accused of being "…
Kakadjan Halbaev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In February 2018, authorities detained Halbaev, a former student who had studied in Russia, and charged him with "petty hooliganism…
Kemal Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In January 2018, authorities in Ashgabat detained Saparov, a student who was studying abroad in Russia, for alleged disorderly conduct…
Abdulmajid Moradzahi is detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On January 30, 2023, authorities arrested Moradzahi, a prominent Sunni cleric, during protests in Zahedan…
Abdolaziz Omarzahi is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On April 30, 2023, authorities arrested Omarzahi, a lecturer at the Makki seminary school…
Abdollah Barahouie is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On August 12, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Barahouie, a scholar at the Madineh al…
Ruslan Nahaev is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Nahaev among others after accusing…
Eldar Kantemirov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Kantemirov among others after…
Ruslan Mesutov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Mesutov among others after accusing…
Lenur Khalilov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Khalilov, an imam, among others…
Yashar Shykhametov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 17, 2021, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Shykhametov among others after…
Ismet Ibragimov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Ibragimov among others after searching their…
Fathi Mohammad Naghshbandi is detained for his religious activity.
On August 20, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Naghshbandi, the imam and Friday prayer leader in Rask,…
Seitiaha Abbozov is under house arrest for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including…
Rinat Aliev is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Aliev,…
Edem Bekirov is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Bekirov,…
Vilen Temerianov is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including …
Enver Krosh is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Krosh,…
Mohammed al-Ghamdi is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2022, security forces in Mecca arrested al-Ghamdi at his home. Prosecutors accused him of…
Ilfat Galimov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Galimov after accusing him of the…
Rustam Khalikov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Khalikov after accusing him of the…
Akramjon Abdullayev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 25, 2016, federal security service agents in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Abdullayev after…
Nematjon Isroilov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 25, 2016, federal security service agents in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Isroilov …
Enver Seytosmanov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On May 10, 2018, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Seytosmanov after accusing him of…
Riza Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…
Enver Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…
Aider Dzhepparov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Dzhepparov after accusing him of being a member of the banned…
Anooshavan Avedian was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 21, 2020, agents with the Ministry of Intelligence Service arrested Avedian, a house church leader, after…
Anas al-Mazrou is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
In March 2019, authorities arrested al-Mazrou, a university lecturer, for participating in a human rights panel at the…
Kim Jung-wook is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 8, 2013, North Korean authorities arrested Kim Jung-wook, a South Korean missionary, after he allegedly entered…
Kim Kook-kie is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In October 2014, North Korean authorities arrested and forcibly disappeared Kim Kook-kie, a South Korean pastor who engaged…
Ashyrbay Bekiev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In August or September 2023, Turkmen authorities detained Bekiev after he had been deported from Russia following…
Andrey Kapatsyna is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On September 23, 2022, Kapatsyna was sent to a military unit in Vladivostok after he received a military summons to support…
Vyacheslav Reznichenko is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On June 15, 2023, the Vladivostok Garrison Military Court sentenced Reznichenko to two years and six months in…
Zurab Dzhabrailov is detained for his religious activity.
On August 1, 2023, authorities in Moscow detained Dzhabrailov and another individual for participating in meetings to study…
Jeyhun Rustamov is detained for his religious activity.
On August 1, 2023, authorities in Moscow detained Dzhabrailov and another individual for participating in meetings to study the…
Wan Changchun is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2023, authorities from Yuhui district, Bengbu municipality, Anhui province detained Wan, a pastor from the…
Abdullo Shamsiddin is imprisoned for his religious association.
In January 2023, Tajik authorities detained Shamsiddin after he was extradited from Germany. Authorities charged him with "…
Nizomiddin Nasriddinov is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In July 2023, Tajik authorities detained Nasriddinov after he was extradited from Belarus. Nasriddinov…
Muhsinjon Ahmedov is detained for his religious activity.
On October 20, 2023, French authorities again detained Ahmedov, this time keeping him in a deportation center before…
Radik Khairutdinov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
On September 23, 2019, authorities detained Khairutdinov and others after accusing them of studying Islam and…
Elmar Mamedov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
On September 23, 2019, authorities detained Mamedov and others after accusing them of studying Islam and spreading…
Abdulhannon Usmonov is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In January 2023, authorities from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Khatlon region arrested Abdulhannon…
Marcos Sergio Hernández Jirón was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Jirón, a pastor with the Puerta…
Harry Lening Rios Bravo was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Bravo, a pastor with the Puerta de la…
Manuel de Jesús Ríos Flores was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Flores, a pastor with the Puerta…
José Luis Orozco Urrutia was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Urrutia, a pastor with the Puerta de…
Álvaro Daniel Escobar Cabrera was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Cabrera, a pastor with the…
Juan Carlos Chavarría Zapata was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Zapata, a pastor with the Puerta…
Juan Luis Moncada was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Moncada, a pastor with the Puerta de la…
Orvin Alexis Moncada Castellano was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Castellano, a pastor with the…
César Facundo Burgalin Miranda was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Miranda, a pastor with the…
Walner Omier Blandón Ochoa was imprisoned for his religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Ochoa, a pastor with the Puerta de…
Marisela de Fátima Mejía Ruiz was imprisoned for her religious affiliation and religious leadership role.
In December 2023, Nicaraguan police arrested Ruiz, a pastor with the Puerta…
Ding Zhongfu is detained for his religious leadership role.
On November 30, 2023, law enforcement authorities in Hefei city, Anhui province, arrested Ding, an elder of the unregistered…
Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov, imam of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in…
Bakhtiyor Akbarov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Akbarov, a religious leader of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in the…
Mirzoburhan Salmanzoda is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Salmanzoda, a congregant of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in…
Assad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi was sentenced on religious-based charges related to social media activity criticizing the Saudi government, including the authorities’ sidelining of the Saudi religious…
Choi Chun-gil is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In December 2014, North Korean authorities reportedly arrested and forcibly disappeared Choi Chun-gil, a South Korean…
Abdumutal Abdurahimov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
In May 2024, the Bog’dod District Court sentenced Abdurahimov to 12 years in prison for his affiliation with the…
Salai Ayla Lone Wai is imprisoned for his religious activity, leadership, and ethnoreligious identity.
On December 28, 2021, Burmese military authorities arrested Ayla Lone Wai, an ethnic…
Mussie Ezaz is detained for his religious activity.
In September 2007, authorities arrested Ezaz, an evangelist of 14 years and leader of the unregistered evangelical Kale Hiwot (Word…
Umar Khalimov is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Khalimov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home…
Sardor Jurayev is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Jurayev and seven other Muslims, after six of them had attended a meal at the home…
Laziz Vokhidov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Vokhidov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home of a…
Jamshid Abdirakhimov is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Abdirakhimov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal…
Gaybullo Jalilov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Jalilov and seven other Muslims after six of them had attended a meal at the home of…
Anvar Abdullayev is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
On June 18, 2024, police arrested Abdullayev and other Muslims he was associated with after some of their group had…
Pavel Shreider was imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2024, armed National Security Committee officials arrested Shreider, a pastor of the banned True and…
Gao Quanfu is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2025, authorities arrested Gao, pastor of Light of Zion Church, at his home in Xi'an and accused him of "…
Qu Hongbo is detained for his religious belief and leadership role.
In June 2025, authorities detained Qu Hongbo, pastor of Shenyang’s Sai’erte Youth Fellowship, a church affiliated…
Jin Mingri ("Ezra Jin") is detained for his religious activity.
On October 10, 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Jin for his Christian activity and leadership role as a pastor of Zion…
Nikolay Romanyuk is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In October 2024, Russian authorities arrested Romanyuk for preaching an anti-war…
Nguyen Manh Hung is imprisoned for his religious activity and religious freedom advocacy.
In January 2025, Vietnamese authorities raided Hung's home, confiscated his belongings, and…
Y Thinh Nie is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In September 2024, Vietnamese authorities detained Y Thinh Nie, a Montagnard Protestant, for refusing to join the state-controlled…
Y Nuen Ayun is detained for his religious belief and association.
On October 8, 2025, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Nuen Ayun, a leader of the unregistered Montagnard Evangelical Church…
Y Quynh Bdap is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On November 28, 2025, Thai authorities ordered Bdap, a Montagnard Christian, to be extradited to…
Ro Cham Grong is imprisoned for his religious belief and identity.
On May 10, 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Grong, a Montagnard Christian and deacon at the Dega Protestant…
Y Po Mlo is imprisoned for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In August 2024, Vietnamese authorities arrested Mlo, a Montagnard Christian and member of the…
Rudy Palacios Vargas is under house arrest for his religious leadership role and religiously based political criticism.
On July 17, 2025, masked Nicaraguan officers arrested Palacios…
Efrén Antonio Vílchez López is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
On May 15, 2022, Nicaraguan authorities beat and detained Vílchez López, a well-known cross-…
Y Krec Bya is imprisoned for his religious association and religious freedom advocacy.
On April 8, 2023, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Krec Bya, a Montagnard Christian and member…
Wang Lin is detained for his religious belief and leadership role.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, along with dozens of other Christians…
Yin Huibin is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Yin in Beihai, Guangxi, along with dozens of other Christians affiliated…
Sun Cong is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Sun in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Liu Zhenbin is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Liu in Qingdao along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Liu Jiang is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Lu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Lin Shucheng was detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Lin in Chengdu, Sichuan, along with dozens of other Christians…
Sun Xue was detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Sun in Zhengzhou along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Gao Yinjia is detained for his religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Gao in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…