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Zhang Xia was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On March 15, 2016, police in Dalian municipality, Liaoning province detained Zhang and later raided her home, confiscating her…
Rao Xiaoping is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On April 19, 2018, public security officers in Wuhan municipality, Hubei province, arrested Rao and four other Falun Gong…
Lai Guifang is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On or around October 8, 2017, public security officials from the Economic and Technological Development Zone in Dalian municipality,…
Li Guo'ai is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 9, 2017, authorities in Shanhaiguan district, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, arrested 6 Falun Gong…
Wu Yanhua is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 9, 2018, authorities in Daqing municipality, Heilongjiang province, arrested Wu alongside dozens of Falun Gong…
Hou Mila is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On April 19, 2018, public security officers in Wuhan municipality, Hubei province, arrested Hou and four other Falun Gong practitioners…
Lin Lizhen was imprisoned for her religious activity.
In August 2018, authorities from of Dianbai district, Maoming municipality, Guangdong province, detained Lin, her son,…
Lin Yanmei was imprisoned for her religious activity.
In August 2018, authorities from of Dianbai district, Maoming municipality, Guangdong province, detained Lin, her sister,…
Xu Xiaoying was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 9, 2018, authorities from Daoli district, Harbin municipality, Heilongjiang province, detained five Falun Gong…
Fan Rong is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 9, 2018, authorities from Daoli district, Harbin municipality, Heilongjiang province, detained five Falun Gong practitioners…
Ding Shumei is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On October 30, 2017, authorities detained Ding Shumei and Huang Liping after police allegedly caught them distributing Falun Gong…
Pei Yuxian was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Pei and her husband,…
Zheng Jinling was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On September 6, 2015, authorities from from Tongliao municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), arrested four Falun…
Ding Lijie was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On January 7, 2019, police in Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, detained Ding alongside two colleagues after…
Guo Yuzhen was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On December 31, 2018, authorities detained Guo in Wukeshu town, Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, for allegedly…
Zhang Chuanwen was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhang, after they had allegedly shared information…
Xu Junying was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Xu, after they had allegedly shared information about…
Yang Xiufang was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Yang, after they had allegedly shared information…
Wang Haichao was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Wang, after they had allegedly shared information…
Wang Baoyu is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…
Xiong Chengxia is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…
Ma Baoling was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…
Yang Hua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 30, 2018, authorities detained Yang in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her religious…
Chen Fuzhi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 30, 2018, authorities detained Chen in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her…
Huang Jun is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 30, 2018, authorities arrested Huang in Yichang City, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her…
Jiang Yanghua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On August 21, 2019, authorities from Aksu city detained Jiang in Aksu, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR),…
Wan Yuqin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 31, 2017, authorities detained Wan in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her religious…
Zhang Keqiong was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 31, 2017, authorities detained Zhang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…
Yang Cuifeng is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Yang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…
Yang Ziyu is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Yang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity. …
Luo Kemei is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Luo in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…
Tang Yunfang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Tang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…
Wang Chunxiang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Wang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity…
Li Cui was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On May 9, 2018, police arrested Li after raiding a house in Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, where Li and others were…
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…
Hu Yanling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 11, 2018, authorities arrested Hu in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…
Gong Donghua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 23, 2018, authorities detained Gong in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…
Sun Ping is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 15, 2018, authorities detained Sun in Zibo city, Shandong province, for allegedly burning CDs and providing…
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.…
Mariyum Lal was detained for blasphemy.
On April 9, 2021, authorities arrested Lal, who is a nurse, and her coworker, Newsh Arooj, after an incident at their workplace. According to…
Newsh Arooj was detained for blasphemy.
On April 9, 2021, authorities arrested Arooj, who is a nurse, and her coworker, Mariyum Lal, after an incident at their workplace. According to…
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.…
Ruth Sitepu was forcibly disappeared for her religious identity.
On November 30, 2016, Sitepu and her husband, Joshua Hilmy, were disappeared at the hands of authorities or…
Sun Zhifen is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 25, 2018, authorities in Yingze district, Taiyuan municipality, Shanxi province, arrested Sun in her apartment…
Wang Suping is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 25, 2018, authorities in Yingze district, Taiyuan municipality, Shanxi province, arrested Wang at her home. …
Tang Jianqun is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 22, 2017, authorities from Jieyang municipality, Guangdong province, arrested Tang alongside four other Falun…
Shi Fenglan is imprisoned for her religious activity.
Between August 31, 2017, to October 13, 2017, public security officials in Yilan county, Harbin municipality, and…
Lin Jiangmei was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On November 9, 2015, authorities detained Lin alongside two others in Chaoyang municipality, Liaoning province. Officials reportedly…
Zhang Qingxiang is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 25, 2018, police arrested Zhang at her home in Xiaodian district. Her arrest coincided with the arrest of seven…
Tian Yuqin is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 25, 2018, authorities in Yingze district, Taiyuan municipality, Shanxi province, arrested Tian in a colleague's…
Zeng Huaying was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On June 20, 2018, police in Meizhou municipality, Guangdong province, arrested Zeng reportedly in relation to her practice of…
Lu Keqin is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In June 2018, police arrested Lu for her practice of Falun Gong.
In June 2019, the Feicheng Municipal People’s Court sentenced Lu to…
Chunmei Wang was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On May 27, 2020, Kaiyuan City police arrested Wang, a retiree from Kaiyuan City, Yunnan Province who worked at the Honghe…
Olga Ivanov is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 9, 2020, authorities arrested Ivanov following raids by security officials in Astrakhan on the…
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…
Anna Safronova is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On June 2, 2021, authorities detained Safronova after searching her residence. The month prior, authorities…
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…
Shohida Mamadjonova was imprisoned for her religious association.
In February 2022, authorities forcibly disappeared Mamadjonova, the mother of religious freedom advocate Sherzod …
Liu Lijie is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On October 14, 2020, public security officers from Jiamusi Municipality, Heilongjiang Province, detained Liu while she was at…
Simran Kumari was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In August 2020, 17-year-old Kumari disappeared from her aunt's home in Gotki district, Sindh province. Days later, her family was…
Reena was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In March 2019, armed men kidnapped 14-year-old Reena and her 15-year-old sister, Raveena, from their home in Gotki district, Sindh…
Raveena was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In March 2019, armed men reportedly kidnapped 15-year-old Raveena and her 14-year-old sister, Reena, from their home in Gotki district…
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…
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…
Kumtu Vasuniya was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Vasuniya and five others, including her husband, after they were…
Saju Ben is detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to forcibly…
Sama Ben was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to…
Ranga Ben was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities arrested Ben and five others after they were accused of trying to…
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…
Bonkho Kyi was imprisoned for her adherence to a religious figure.
In November 2015, authorities arrested Kyi after accusing her of organizing observances to celebrate the Dalai Lama's…
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…
Mahnaz Jan Nesar was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Nesar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Maral Rasti was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasti and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Arezou Mohammadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Mohammadi and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in…
Atieh Salehi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Salehi and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in Birjand.…
Roya Melaki was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In October 2017, security agents arrested Melaki and several other Baha’is following a raid on their homes in Birjand. The…
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…
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…
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…
Saeedeh Khozui was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2022, Khozui was reportedly arrested after appearing at a courthouse.
On May 24,…
Zheng Yanmei is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Zheng,…
Zheng Yujie is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Zheng, living…
Deng Jingjing is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Deng, living in…
Zhang Renfei is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhang, living in…
Meng Qingxia is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Meng, living in…
Jiao Mengjiao was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Jiao, living in…
Li Jiaxuan was imprisoned for her religious activity.
On July 19, 2020, public security officials in Beijing municipality detained 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Li, living in…
Shoma Sen was detained for her human rights and civil rights work for marginalized religious communities.
On June 6, 2018, police in Maharashtra arrested several…
Jyoti Jagtap is detained for her religious freedom advocacy.
In September 2020, the Anti-Terrorism Squad in Pune arrested Jagtap, a human rights activist, for…