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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…
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is imprisoned for her activism and criticism of state-endorsed religious interpretations.
On September 26, 2022, authorities arrested Iraee from her home in…
Gulshan Abbas is imprisoned in relation to her ethnoreligious identity.
On September 11, 2018, authorities in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) forcibly…
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…
Hidme Markam was detained for her advocacy work to protect religious sites.
On March 9, 2021, authorities arrested Markam, an Adivasi Indigenous activist known for criticizing state…
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…
Zeynab Jalalian is imprisoned on religiously oriented charges.
In March 2008, security officials violently arrested Jalalian reportedly in relation to her social and political activism for…
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…
Saba Kord Afshari was imprisoned for her women’s rights activism against compulsory religious veiling.
In June 2019, authorities arrested Afshari for protesting compulsory hijab after a…
Monireh Arabshahi was imprisoned for her women’s rights activism against compulsory religious veiling.
In April 2019, authorities arrested Arabshahi for protesting compulsory hijab by…
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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Asmaa al-Subaie is detained for her women’s rights activism critical of state-imposed religious systems.
In June 2021, authorities affiliated with the Presidency of State Security arrested…
Renagul Gheni is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and religious activity.
In 2018, authorities in Cherchen…
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…
Salma al-Shehab was imprisoned for her women's rights activism opposing state-imposed religious systems as well as her religious identity.
On January 15, 2021, authorities arrested al-…
Mahsa Amini was detained and died in state custody in relation to state-imposed religious dress.
In September 2022, police tasked with enforcing public morals in Tehran arrested Amini for…
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…
Niloofar Hamedi was imprisoned for reporting on religious freedom conditions.
On September 22, 2022, authorities raided the home of Hamedi and arrested her in relation to her…
Elaheh Mohammadi was imprisoned for reporting on religious freedom conditions.
On September 29, 2022, authorities arrested Mohammadi in relation to her reporting on the funeral of Mahsa…
Farzaneh Gharehassanlou is imprisoned on religiously oriented charges for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 4, 2022, authorities in Karaj arrested …
Maryam Nematollahi is imprisoned for opposing state-mandated religious veiling.
On October 13, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nematollahi, an Instagram influencer and…
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…
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…
Manahel al-Otaibi is imprisoned for her religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2022, Saudi authorities arrested al-Otaibi, an online fitness influencer, for opposing religiously grounded…
Fatemeh Sepehri is imprisoned for criticizing state-imposed religious policies.
On September 21, 2022, security forces arrested Sepehri following the outbreak of nationwide…
Rahile Dawut is detained for her ethnoreligious identity and scholarship.
In December 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Dawut, Uyghur…
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…
Neda Fotouhi is imprisoned for her membership in a religious organization and activism.
In October 2023, Iranian security forces arrested Fotouhi, an Iranian follower of Erfan-e-Halgheh,…