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Ivan Matsitsky was detained for his religious activity and religious leadership role.
In June 2017, authorities detained Matsitsky, the director of the Church of Scientology in St.…
Eduard Nizamov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 10, 2018, authorities arrested Nizamov after accusing him of being the leader of a network of cells for the…
Umar Gautam is detained for his religious activity.
In June 2021, authorities arrested Gautam, a Muslim convert, Islamic scholar, and founder of the Islamic Da’…
Qazi Jahangir Qasmi is detained for his religious activity.
In June 2021, authorities arrested Qasmi, an Islamic cleric and employee at the Islamic Da’wah…
Kaleem Siddiqui was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On September 21, 2021, authorities arrested Siddiqui, an Islamic scholar and…
Jam Singh was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On December 26/27, 2021, authorities arrested Singh, who is a pastor, and two others after they were accused of…
Ansingh Ninama was detained in relation to their religious belief and activity.
On December 26/27, 2021, authorities arrested Ninama, who is a pastor, and two others after they were…
Nandha Nathaniel was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities arrested Nathaniel, who is a pastor, and his wife, Savita Singh, after they…
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…
Leonid Ponomaryov was disappeared for his religious beliefs and activity.
On September 21, 2022, armed men in military uniform abducted Ponomaryov, a Baptist pastor, and his wife from…
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…
Mykhailo Reznikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.
On March 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Reznikov, a Baptist pastor, in Russian-occupied Mariupol…
Artur Kozhevnikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.
On April 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Kozhevnikov, the chairman of the Council of the German…
Valentin Zhuravlov was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On June 18, 2022, Russian armed forces detained Zhuravlev, a Protestant pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine…
Mykhailo Britsyn was detained for his religious leadership role.
In September 2022, Russian military detained Britsyn, a pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine, during a religious…
Ioann Kurmoyarov was imprisoned for his religious beliefs.
On June 7, 2022, authorities arrested Kurmoyarov, a hieromonk, after he posted several videos on his YouTube channel outlining…
Ivan Levitsky was detained for his religious leadership role.
In November 2022, Russian forces in Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine, reportedly abducted hieromonk …
Bohdan Geleta was detained for his religious leadership role.
In November 2022, Russian forces in Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine, reportedly abducted Geleta, a priest…
Serhiy Karpenko was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On December 12, 2022, Russian soldiers detained Karpenko, pastor of the Vefil (Bethel) Protestant Church in…
Abdul Rashid Dawoodi is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In September 2022, police in Jammu and Kashmir arrested Dawoodi, a Sufi cleric and founder of the Tehreek-e-…
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…
Khrystofor Khrimli was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On September 18, 2023, Russian authorities in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine detained …
Andriy Chuy was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On September 18, 2023, Russian authorities in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine detained Chuy, a priest of…
Kostiantyn Maksimov is imprisoned for his religious belief.
On May 16, 2023, Russian forces in Russian-occupied Chongar, Ukraine, detained Maksimov, a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox…