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Mo Xiufeng is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 2, 2017, plainclothes police officers from Lishui city, Zhejiang province, detained Mo after raiding her home…
Wu Lin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 21, 2017, police from Lishui, Zhejiang province, arrested Wu reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role,…
Bao Shuguang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 1, 2017, public security officials from Zaozhuang municipality, Shandong province, detained Bao, a church leader,…
Jiang Xingmei is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 23, 2017, authorities criminally detained Jiang, a church leader, after accusing her of organizing religious…
Chen Hong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 23, 2017, authorities criminally detained Chen, a church leader, after accusing her organizing religious meetings,…
Bai Lanxiang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 23, 2017, authorities criminally detained Bai, a church leader, after accusing her of organizing religious…
Gu Liya is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 23, 2017, authorities criminally detained Gu, a church leader, after accusing her of organizing religious meetings…
Zhu Jinlian is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 30, 2017, police from Pingyuan dounty, Shandong province, detained Zhu reportedly in relation to her religious…
Yang Meiyun is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 2, 2017, officers from the Keshan Branch of the Quzhou Public Security Bureau detained Yang while she was boarding…
Zeenah Ibraheem was detained for her religious belief and activity.
On December 12, 2015, authorities arrested Ibraheem and her husband, El Zakzaky, a Shi'a Muslim cleric and leader of the…
Zeng Lingying is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 23, 2016, authorities criminally detained Yuan reportedly in relation to her religious work, organizing of…
Jiang Ruirui was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 25, 2014, authorities detained Jiang, a leader of the Church of Almighty God, reportedly while she was attending a…
Li Wanbi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 17, 2017, authorities in Wanzhou District of Chongqing City detained Li reportedly in relation to her…
Wang Huanhuan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 16, 2014, police from Ningguo City, Anhui Province, detained Wang reportedly in relation to her religious…
Zheng Shihong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2016, the police in Weifang city, Shandong province, detained Zheng reportedly in relation to her…
Yang Xia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 17, 2016, the police in Weifang city, Shandong province, detained Yang reportedly in relation to her religious…
Ren Guixia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On February 18, 2015, police detained Ren at her home reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role, organizing of…
Xu Zhaoling was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 9, 2014, officers from the Public Security Bureau of Wulian county, Rizhao city, Shandong province, detained Xu…
Geng Hongmei was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 1, 2015, officers from the the Taixing City Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu province detained Geng reportedly…
Li Hong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 30, 2017, authorities arrested Li reportedly in relation to her religious belief, alleged leadership role,…
Xiang Caihua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 22, 2018, officers from Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Xiang reportedly in relation…
Cui Jing is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In June 2018, police officers from the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Cui reportedly in relation to…
Gui Chengxia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In June 2018, officers from the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Gui reportedly in relation to…
He Chun is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2018, police officers from the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained He reportedly in…
Liu Xuemei is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 15, 2018, officers from the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang arrested Liu reportedly…
Wang Yuling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2018, officers from the Kuitun City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Wang reportedly in…
Hu Wenlan is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 3, 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Hu, a member of the Church of…
Zhang Xue is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In November 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Zhang reportedly in relation to…
Tang Xiaorong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 3, 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Tang reportedly in…
Huang Qiuxiang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 29, 2018, police from the Yining City Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang detained Huang reportedly in…
Xiong Qunqun is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 29, 2018, officers from the Linchuan Branch of Fuzhou Public Security Bureau detained Xiong reportedly in…
Xiang Mingqiong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 11, 2018, officers from the Wanzhou District Public Security Bureau detained Xiang reportedly in relation…
Hu Xinnü was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On April 27, 2016, police from the Xiqiao Town Police Station in Taixing city detained Hu reportedly in relation to her…
Yuan Hongfen is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 24, 2018, officers from the Beizhai Police Station of Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau Laoshan…
Li Yongqiu is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 24, 2018, officers from the Zhonghan Police Station of the Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau detained…
Hou Jingran is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 2, 2017, officers from the Tianjin Public Security Bureau detained Hou reportedly in relation to her…
Zhou Jiarong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On February 28, 2018, authorities detained Zhou reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role and printing of…
Wang Xiaomei is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 2, 2017, officers from Fuyang district of Hangzhou city detained Wang reportedly in relation to her religious…
Lou Huiping is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 2, 2017, authorities in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city arrested Lou reportedly in relation to…
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…
Shi Mudan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On January 16, 2015, officers from the Qingyang County Public Security Bureau in Chizhou city detained Shi reportedly in…
Wang Shan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 7, 2016, officers from the Gulou District National Security Brigade in Xuzhou and Jiuli District Police Station…
Guan Caihua was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 20, 2014, authorities detained Guan reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs, religious leadership role, and…
Jia Zifang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 11, 2017, officers from from Haidian district detained Jia reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs…
Lu Zhuqing was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 11, 2017, authorities detained Lu in Haidian district reportedly in relation to her religious belief and…
Xiao Meili is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 13, 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Xiao reportedly in…
Liang Junlan is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 27, 2018, officers from the Shuangliao Public Security Bureau detained Liang reportedly in relation to her…
Pang Qing is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On January 10, 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Pang reportedly in…
Hu Chunhong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In March 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Hu reportedly in relation…
Wang Xiupin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In June 2018, officers from the Kuitun Public Security Bureau detained Wang reportedly in relation to her religious…
Li Yongqiu is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 22, 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau detained Li reportedly in relation to her…
Erdenetuya was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 17, 2018, police officers from the Tamusu Border Police Station detained Erdenetuya in Alxa League, Inner…
Cheng Hui is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Chepaizi Reclamation Area detained Cheng reportedly in…
Wang Yan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Chepaizi Reclamation Area detained Wang reportedly in…
Liu Zhi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 24, 2018, officers from the Qingdao City Public Security Bureau arrested Liu reportedly in relation to her…
Cai Jinfeng was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 2, 2017, officers from the Lishui City Public Security Bureau of Zhejiang province detained Cai in relation to…
Zhang Zhiqin was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On September 21, 2016, officers from the Shucheng County Public Security Bureau detained Zhang reportedly in relation to…
Wang Liangfang was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 24, 2017, officers from the Tongguan Branch of the Tongling City Public Security Bureau detained Wang reportedly…
Liu Huijuan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 20, 2017, officers from the Pingdingshan City Public Security Bureau detained Liu reportedly in relation to…
Liu Xiaoguo was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On December 20, 2017, officers from the Pingdingshan Public Security Bureau arrested Liu reportedly in relation to…
Hu Mei was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In May 2016, officers from the Xuzhou Economic Development Zone Public Security Bureau detained Hu reportedly in relation to her…
Hu Xiuzhen was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 20, 2015, officers from the Feng County Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu province detained Hu reportedly in…
Donaida Pérez Paseiro is imprisoned for her religious leadership.
On July 16, 2021, Cuban authorities arrested Paseiro, the president of the Free Yoruba Association of Cuba, an independent…
Li Xiao is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression.
On December 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Li. Reports suggest…
Liu Jianhui is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression.
On October 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Liu. Reports…
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.…
Tang Jianqun is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 22, 2017, authorities from Jieyang municipality, Guangdong province, arrested Tang alongside four other Falun…
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…
Shohida Mamadjonova was imprisoned for her religious association.
In February 2022, authorities forcibly disappeared Mamadjonova, the mother of religious freedom advocate Sherzod …
Savita Singh was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities arrested Singh and her husband, Nandha Nathaniel, after they were accused of…
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…
Parizad Hamidi Shafagh is imprisoned on blasphemy-related charges.
In February 2020, intelligence agents arrested Shafagh reportedly in relation to her social media activities.
In…
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…
Dechen Choedron was forcibly disappeared for her son's religious leadership role.
On May 17, 1995, authorities abducted Choedron her then six-year old son Gedhun Choekyi Nyima,…
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…
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…
Hayedeh Ram is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2017, intelligence agents of Bushehr province arrested Ram and several other Baha’is.
On an…
Cao Thi Cuc was imprisoned for her religious activity and expression.
On May 12, 2022, authorities arrested Cao Thi Cuc, a member of the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (…
Sepideh Rashnu was detained for resisting state-imposed religious dress.
On July 16, 2022, authorities arrested Rashnu following an altercation on a bus between a woman, who was…
Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani was imprisoned for her human rights work in support of the LGBTQI+ community.
On October 27, 2021, authorities detained Sedighi-Hamadani in Urumieh,…
Mahvash Sabet is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Sabet in Tehran after raiding her home. Security forces allegedly…
Fariba Kamalabadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Kamalabadi in Tehran after raiding her home.
In…
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-…
Rhoda Jatau was detained for blasphemy.
On May 20, 2022, authorities in Bauchi state arrested Jatau after riots broke out in response to a perceived blasphemous message she sent on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Maryam Nematollahi is imprisoned for opposing state-mandated religious veiling.
On October 13, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nematollahi, an Instagram influencer and…
Reyhaneh Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting…
Ghazal Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting nationwide protests…
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.…
Kishta Tutinova was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On February 28, 2023, authorities in Elista detained Tutinova after searching her home and confiscating a…
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…
Nathasha Edirisooriya was detained for blasphemy.
On May 27, 2023, police arrested and detained Edirisooriya after receiving a complaint that she made jokes insulting to Buddhism and…
Zhang Yibo is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On October 9, 2021, authorities arrested Zhang in relation to her Falun Gong activities. She was brought to the Changing PSB Detention…
Gabriela Morales was detained in relation to a crackdown on religious institutions.
On August 19, 2023, police detained Morales, who was a student at the Jesuit Juan Pablo II University.…
Nourah al-Qahtani is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In July 2021, officers of the Presidency of State Security arrested al-Qahtani for advocating for human rights on social…
Wangchug Tso is detained for her adherence to a religious figure.
On October 26, 2023, authorities in Dola (Qilian) county, Tsojang (Haibei) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province…