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Ernes Ametov is imprisoned for his religious activity and alleged religious association.
On October 11, 2017, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean…
Edem Smailov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On May 21, 2018, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Smailov after accusing them of being involved…
Aleksey Trofimov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Trofimov after searching the homes of several…
Dmitriy Malevaniy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 25, 2018, authorities in Spassk-Dalniy detained Malevaniy after searching the homes of several…
Oleksandr Sizikov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Sizikov among others after searching…
Seiran Khairedinov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Khairedinov among others after…
Alim Sufianov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Sufianov among others after searching their…
Azamat Eyupov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 17, 2021, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Eyupov, accusing him of being a member…
Zhou Deyong is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On April 23, 2021, authorities in Dongying municipality, Shandong province detained Zhou and raided his home, confiscating Falun…
Jahongir Ulugmurodov was imprisoned for his religious activities.
On an unspecified date, authorities detained Ulugmurodov for downloading and sharing a religious song with some classmates…
Oybek Khamidov is imprisoned for his religious activities.
On January 17, 2022, authorities arrested Khamidov for allegedly sharing illegal religious materials on social media to his…
Alijon Mirganiyev is imprisoned for his religious activities.
On June 22, 2022, authorities detained Mirganiyev at Tashkent Airport and accused him of participating in a banned "…
Jaime Iván Montesinos Sauceda was detained in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On May 23, 2023, police arrested Montesinos Sauceda, the parish priest of San Juan…
Eugenio Rodríguez Benavides is detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 20, 2023, police arrested Rodríguez Benavides, parish priest of Divina…
Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrez was detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 22, 2023, police arrested Guevara Gutiérrez, parish priest of Estelí…
Adil Babar is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In May 2023, police arrested Babar and his friend, Simon Nadeem, for allegedly calling a puppy "Muhammad Ali." The police charged Babar with "…
Simon Nadeem is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In May 2023, police arrested Nadeem, a minor, and his friend, Adil Babar, for allegedly calling a puppy "Muhammad Ali." The police charged…
Ali Ahmed Tariq was detained for blasphemy.
On April 27, 2023, police arrested Tariq, a lawyer, after receiving a complaint that he used the name "Syed" …
Marat Saybatalov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Alim Timkanov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including Timkanov,…
Damir Abdrafikov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Ruslan Bariev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including Bariev…
Rafis Idrissov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including Idrissov,…
Turatbek Osmonkulov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Aidar Tashbulatov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Ruslan Fomin is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including Fomin, for…
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…
Ahmad Al Malahi was detained for his religious activity.
On May 25, 2023, armed Houthi forces detained 17 Baha’is, including Al Malahi, after raiding a private residence in Sana’a where…
Khunar Agayev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 23, 2021, authorities arrested Agayev for meeting to study the writings of Said Nursi. Authorities accused him…
Aydar Sageyev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 23, 2021, authorities arrested Sageyev for meeting to study the writings of Said Nursi. Authorities…
Ernes Seytosmanov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 9, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several individuals, including …
Yurii Herashchenko was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On March 22, 2023, Russian authorities arrested Herashchenko, a resident of Crimea, Ukraine, after accusing…
Sergei Parfenovich was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On September 28, 2022, Russian authorities in Krasnogvardeiskoe, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Parfenovich…
Ahmed Mohamed was detained for blasphemy.
On May 9, 2022, security officials arrested Mohamed at his home in a village in the Fayoum Governorate. He reportedly remained forcibly disappeared…
Fernando Zamora Silva was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 9, 2023, police detained Zamora Silva, a Catholic priest and the chancellor of the Diocese of Siuna…
Foad Shaker was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Shaker, at the residence of Shahram…
Shahram Fallah was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Fallah, at Fallah's residence. The…
Behnam Pour-Ahmadi was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On July 12, 2023, authorities in Kerman arrested five Baha'is, including Pour-Ahmadi, at the residence of…
Badr Nader Al-Mashari is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In July 2023, authorities detained Al-Mashari, a prominent cleric who criticized the Saudi government's sponsorship…
Dmytro Naukhatsky is under house arrest for his religious activity.
On December 8, 2022, authorities in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Naukhatsky after accusing him of…
Artem Velichko was under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On February 14, 2023, authorities in Saransk arrested Velichko and transferred him to a detention center after…
Mansour Amini is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 1, 2023, authorities arrested Amini at his home reportedly in relation to his activities assisting Baha'i…
Valiollah Ghadamian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 1, 2023, authorities arrested Ghadamian reportedly in relation to his activities assisting Baha'i…
Kakadjan Halbaev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In February 2018, authorities detained Halbaev, a former student who had studied in Russia, and charged him with "petty hooliganism…
Kemal Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In January 2018, authorities in Ashgabat detained Saparov, a student who was studying abroad in Russia, for alleged disorderly conduct…
Arash Nabavi is imprisoned for his religious belief and association.
In August 2023, authorities arrested Nabavi, a Baháʼí citizen. After two months, he was released on bail. …
Abdolaziz Omarzahi is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On April 30, 2023, authorities arrested Omarzahi, a lecturer at the Makki seminary school…
Abdollah Barahouie is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On August 12, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Barahouie, a scholar at the Madineh al…
Ruslan Nahaev is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Nahaev among others after accusing…
Eldar Kantemirov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Kantemirov among others after…
Ruslan Mesutov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Mesutov among others after accusing…
Lenur Khalilov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Khalilov, an imam, among others…
Pavel Kazadaev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On May 26, 2023, the Industrial District Court of Barnaul imposed a three-year suspended sentence on Kazadaev for…
Yashar Shykhametov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 17, 2021, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Shykhametov among others after…
Ismet Ibragimov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Ibragimov among others after searching their…
Fathi Mohammad Naghshbandi is detained for his religious activity.
On August 20, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Naghshbandi, the imam and Friday prayer leader in Rask,…
Vladimir Moiseenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In or around May 2022, authorities reportedly detained Moiseenko after accusing him of organizing Jehovah's…
Bokurezion Dawit is detained for his religious belief.
In March 2023, Eritrean authorities detained Dawit and took him to Barentu Prison camp for his neutral stand on patriotic issues…
Tewoldemedhin Habtezion is detained for his religious belief and association.
In February 2023, authorities arrested Habtezion because his son would not sing the national anthem and was…
Andemeskel Kidane is detained for his religious belief and association.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Kidane after his two 11-year-old children were expelled from school for…
Yonas Tekeste is detained for his religious belief.
In February 2022, authorities arrested Tekeste for conscientiously objecting to continuing to serve in the military after…
Isak Tekle is detained for his religious belief.
In November 2022, authorities arrested Tekle for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…
Tekle Yoab is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In November 2022, authorities arrested Yoab and his wife for refusing to give money to the national defense.…
Tesfay Kiflay is detained for his religious belief and association.
In March 2023, authorities arrested Kiflay because his daughter refused to sing the national anthem and was expelled…
Rimon Yonas is detained for his religious belief.
In October 2022, authorities arrested Yonas for conscientiously objecting to compulsory military service as a Jehovah's…
Seitiaha Abbozov is under house arrest for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including…
Rinat Aliev is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Aliev,…
Edem Bekirov is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Bekirov,…
Enver Krosh is detained for his alleged religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained several Crimean Tatars, including Krosh,…
Mohammed al-Ghamdi is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2022, security forces in Mecca arrested al-Ghamdi at his home. Prosecutors accused him of…
Ilfat Galimov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Galimov after accusing him of the…
Rustam Khalikov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On or around November 26, 2019, authorities in the Chelyabinsk region detained Khalikov after accusing him of the…
Akramjon Abdullayev is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 25, 2016, federal security service agents in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Abdullayev after…
Nematjon Isroilov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 25, 2016, federal security service agents in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Isroilov …
Sajid Ali is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In 2020, authorities arrested Ali after he was accused of insulting various Islamic figures following a religious debate…
Osman José Amador Guillén is detained for his religious activity and belief.
On September 8, 2023, police arrested Amador, a parish priest in Wiwilí, late at night while he was…
Enver Seytosmanov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On May 10, 2018, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Seytosmanov after accusing him of…
Riza Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…
Enver Omerov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Omerov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…
Aider Dzhepparov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On June 10, 2019, authorities detained Dzhepparov after accusing him of being a member of the banned…
Vladimir Balabkin was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 13, 2023, the Belogorsk District Court sentenced Balabkin to four years in prison for “…
Anooshavan Avedian was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On August 21, 2020, agents with the Ministry of Intelligence Service arrested Avedian, a house church leader, after…
Anas al-Mazrou is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
In March 2019, authorities arrested al-Mazrou, a university lecturer, for participating in a human rights panel at the…
Sina Shahri is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On January 17, 2022, authorities in Tabriz arrested Shahri at his home reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i.…
Julio Ricardo Norori is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Norori, a priest at the…
Iván Centeno is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Iván Centeno, a priest at the…
Cristóbal Gadea is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Cristóbal Gadea, a priest…
Álvaro Toledo is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 5, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Álvaro Toledo, a priest at…
Ramón Esteban Angulo Reyes is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 8, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Ramón Esteban…
Daniil Smal was detained for refusing to serve in the military on religious grounds.
On May 17, 2023, conscription authorities summoned Smal to the district conscription office of Rudny,…
Ashyrbay Bekiev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In August or September 2023, Turkmen authorities detained Bekiev after he had been deported from Russia following…
Andrey Kapatsyna is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On September 23, 2022, Kapatsyna was sent to a military unit in Vladivostok after he received a military summons to support…
Vyacheslav Reznichenko is imprisoned for conscientious objection.
On June 15, 2023, the Vladivostok Garrison Military Court sentenced Reznichenko to two years and six months in…
Danh Minh Quang is imprisoned for religious freedom advocacy.
On or around July 31, 2023, Vietnamese authorities in Soc Trang province arrested Dahn Minh Quang and charged him with “…
Thach Cuong is imprisoned for his human rights advocacy for religious communities.
On or around July 31, 2023, Vietnamese authorities in Tra Vinh province arrested Thach Cuong…
Samphel is detained for his religious activity.
On October 25, 2023, police in Geding (Jiding) town, Sakya (Sajia) county, Shigatse (Rikaze) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, detained…
Dmitriy Chausova is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Chausova after searching the homes of several Jehovah's…
Nikolay Kupriyanskiy is under house arrest for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2023, authorities in Kursk detained Kupriyanskiy after searching the homes of several…