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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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
Sakineh Behjati is imprisoned for practicing her faith as a convert.
On May 14, 2020, authorities took Behjati, a member of the Church of Iran, into custody after being unable to pay…
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…
Fariba Dalir was imprisoned for practicing her religion as a convert.
In July 2021, authorities arrested Dalir and five other converts from Islam to Christianity, including her at the time…
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…
Malihe Nazari was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 30, 2020, authorities arrested Nazari following raids targeting house-churches across several cities…
Tatyana Ponomaryov was disappeared for her religious beliefs and activity.
On September 21, 2022, armed men in military uniform abducted Ponomaryov and her husband, a Baptist pastor, from…
Zhou Jinxia is detained for her religious activity.
On February 20, 2022, authorities detained Zhou, a member of the Beijing Aiqi house church, as she preached in front of the…
Yang Rongli is detained for her religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Yang and her husband Wang Xiaoguang, who…
Anahita Khademi was detained for practicing her religion as a convert.
On January 3, 2023, authorities in Bandar Anzali reportedly arrested Khademi after summoning her. She was…
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…
Fu Juan is detained for her religious activity.
On August 17, 2022, police arrested Fu and two other members of the unregistered house church Church of Abundance in Xi’an city,…
Hua Xiuxia was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Hua after…
Dong Mengru was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Dong…
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…
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…
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,…
Hu Yanzi is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Hu in Jinhua along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Wei Yunfei is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wei in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Li Shengjuan is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Li in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Zhu Mingli is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Zhu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Wu Qiuyu is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wu in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Zhan Ge is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Zhan in Jiaxing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
An Mei is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested An in Beihai, Guangxi along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Cui Xiaole is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Cui in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Wang Zhong is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Shanghai along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with…
Wang Cong is detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Wang in Beijing along with dozens of other Christians affiliated with Zion…
Huang Chunzi was detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Huang in Beihai, Guangxi along with dozens of other Christians…
Yang Lijun was detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Yang in Beihai, Guangxi, along with dozens of other Christians…
Huhe Tuya was detained for her religious belief and association.
In October 2025, Chinese authorities arrested Huhe in Beihai, Guangxi, along with dozens of other Christians affiliated…
Pang Yu is detained for her religious activity and association.
In September 2025, authorities arrested Pang, the wife of Gao Quanfu, pastor of Light of Zion Church, and accused her of…
Gu Hui is detained for his religious belief and association.
In June 2025, authorities detained Gu Hui and four others for their involvement in the banned Full Scope Church movement.…
Liu Xueyun is detained for her religious belief and association.
In June 2025, authorities detained Liu Xiangchao and four others for their involvement in the banned Full Scope Church…
Nadezhda Ukhova is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In October 2023, authorities detained Ukhova, a parishioner of the banned Vozrozhenie ("Revival") Church, for her involvement…
Valeriya Yantsen is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In June 2026, authorities detained Yantsen and 4 other members of the banned True and Free Reform Seventh-day…
Olga Selova is detained for her religious belief and activity.
In June 2026, authorities detained Selova and 4 other members of the banned True and Free Reform Seventh-day Adventist…