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Hu Shigen was imprisoned in relation to his religious activity and religious leadership role.
On July 10, 2015, Hu, a pro-…
Youcef Nadarkhani was imprisoned for practicing his religion as a convert.
On May 13, 2016, intelligence officials in Rasht…
Kidane Weldou is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In March 2005, authorities forcibly disappeared Weldou from the streets of Asmara, leaving his car abandoned. Weldou…
Haile Naizghe is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2004, authorities arrested Naizghe, a pastor of the Full Gospel Church, which was part of a network of banned…
Meron Gebreselasie is detained for his religious leadership role.
In June 2004, authorities arrested Gebreselasie, pastor of Massawa Rhema Evangelical Church, for his leadership…
Kiflu Gebremeskel is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In May 2004, Eritrean authorities arrested Gebremeskel, a pastor of the banned Southwest Full Gospel…
Bakhrom Kholmatov was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On April 10, 2017, authorities Kholmatov, pastor of the Sonmin Sonbogym (Full Gospel) Protestant Church, following a raid…
Raymond Koh was forcibly disappeared for his religious activity.
On February 13, 2017, fifteen Royal Malaysian Police officers in three…
Yarian Sierra Madrigal was under house arrest in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, Madrigal, a pastor from the Berean Baptist Mission in Matanzas, was…
Yéremi Blanco Ramírez was under house arrest in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, authorities detained Ramírez, a pastor from the Berean Baptist Mission in…
Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo was imprisoned in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, Rosales Fajardo, pastor and leader of the Monte de Sion Independent Church in…
Ibrahim Figueredo Fonseca was imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
On June 10, 2021, authorities detained Fonseca, a pastor from Güira de Melena, Artemisa…
Zhang Chunlei is detained for his religious activity.
On March 16, 2021, authorities detained Zhang, an elder of the Love (Ren’ai) Reformed Church, for "illegally operating as an…
Zhang Shaojie was imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
On November 16, 2013, public security officers in Nanle county, Puyang municipality, Henan province,…
Wang Yi is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 9, 2018, authorities detained Wang, pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu and a former human…
Jam Singh was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On December 26/27, 2021, authorities arrested Singh, who is a pastor, and two others after they were accused of…
Ansingh Ninama was detained in relation to their religious belief and activity.
On December 26/27, 2021, authorities arrested Ninama, who is a pastor, and two others after they were…
Joseph Shahbazian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On June 30, 2020, authorities arrested Shahbazian, a house-church leader, following raids targeting house-churches…
Leonid Ponomaryov was disappeared for his religious beliefs and activity.
On September 21, 2022, armed men in military uniform abducted Ponomaryov, a Baptist pastor, and his wife from…
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…
Mykhailo Reznikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.
On March 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Reznikov, a Baptist pastor, in Russian-occupied Mariupol…
Artur Kozhevnikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.
On April 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Kozhevnikov, the chairman of the Council of the German…
Valentin Zhuravlov was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On June 18, 2022, Russian armed forces detained Zhuravlev, a Protestant pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine…
Mykhailo Britsyn was detained for his religious leadership role.
In September 2022, Russian military detained Britsyn, a pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine, during a religious…
Geng Zejun was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities from Huinong district detained Geng, pastor of the house church Church of…
Yang Jianxin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early 2021, authorities detained Yang, pastor of a house church, for “conducting illegal business operations” and “…
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…
Wang Xiaoguang is detained for his religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Wang and his wife Yang Rongli, who are…
An Yankui was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 21, 2021, authorities from Fenyang city, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, reportedly detained An, a…
Hkalam Samson was imprisoned for his religious activity and religious leadership role.
On December 4, 2022, authorities arrested Samson, a pastor and advisor to the Kachin…
Serhiy Karpenko was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On December 12, 2022, Russian soldiers detained Karpenko, pastor of the Vefil (Bethel) Protestant Church in…
Thian Lian Sang is imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Sang, a Chin Baptist pastor, amid a wave of detentions by the Burmese Army of…
Stanislav Moskvitin was imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
On March 13, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Omsk sentenced Moskvitin, the the pastor of the New…
Nikolai Ulitin is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities detained Ulitin, pastor of the Pentecostal Christ the Savior Church, following searches on…
Svyatoslav Yugov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In April 2023, authorities detained Yugov, former pastor of the New Generation Church in Chelyabinsk. Yugov…
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…
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…
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…
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…