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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…
Nazila Nouri was imprisoned for her religious association and for protesting religious freedom conditions.
In February 2018, authorities arrested Nouri following a violent crackdown on…
Shokoufeh Yadollahi Farsi was imprisoned for her religious association and for protesting religious freedom conditions.
In February 2018, authorities arrested Farsi following a…
Shagufta Kausar was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In July 2013, authorities Kausar and her husband, Shafqat Emmanuel, for allegedly sending blasphemous texts. The…
Salma Tanveer is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In September 2013, authorities arrested Tanveer, a school principal, after she was accused of…
Shagufta Kiran is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In July 2021, authorities arrested Kiran after she was accused of forwarding content deemed blasphemous via WhatsApp in September 2020.…
Israa al-Ghomgham is imprisoned for her religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In December 2015, Saudi authorities arrested al-Ghomgham, a well-known Shi'a activist, along with…
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…
Gulfisha Fatima was detained for her religious freedom advocacy.
On April 9, 2020, authorities arrested Fatima, a Muslim student activist, under first information…
Natasha Narwal was detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On May 23, 2020, authorities arrested Narwal, a Hindu student activist, after accusing…
Devangana Kalita was detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On May 23, 2020, authorities arrested Kalita, a Hindu student activist, after accusing…
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…
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…
Phagpa is imprisoned in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
In November 2012, security officials detained Phagpa, reportedly for having conversations in favor of…
Soori Babaei Chegini was detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Chegini from her brother's home in Qazvin after she posted a…
Melika Qaragozlu was detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On July 13, 2022, authorities arrested Qaragozlu, a student activist, reportedly after she…
Atash Shahkarami was detained for speaking out about the disappearance and murder of an anti-hijab protester.
On October 2, 2022, security forces arrested Shahkarami after she spoke with…
Farzaneh Gharehassanlou is imprisoned on religiously oriented charges for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 4, 2022, authorities in Karaj arrested …
Mahsa Mohammadi is detained for blasphemy.
On October 30, 2022, authorities reportedly detained Mohammadi, a university student in Sabzevar, over a tweet perceived as blasphemous.…
Sara Mottaghi is detained for blasphemy.
On January 15, 2023, Iranian authorities raided the home of Mattaghi, a poet, for writing about an ancient Iranian day celebrating women. After…
Nasrin Soutudeh was detained for her religious freedom advocacy.
In October 2023, Iranian authorities arrested Soutudeh, an Iranian human rights activist and lawyer, as she…