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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.…
Bahram Hemdemov was imprisoned for his religious activity.
On March 14, 2015, authorities arrested Hemdemov following a raid on his home coinciding with a large worship meeting he was…
Vyacheslav Boronos was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Boronos after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses in …
Yevgeniy Fedin was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On February 15, 2019, authorities detained Fedin after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut,…
Saveliy Gargalyk was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On February 15, 2019, authorities briefly detained Gargalyk after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses in…
Yevgeniy Kayryak was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On February 15, 2019, authorities arrested Kayryak after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses in…
Mohammad bin Hassan al-Habib is imprisoned for his religious expression, leadership role, and religious freedom advocacy.
In July 2016, authorities detained al-Habib, a Shi'a cleric, as he…
Ruhiddin Fahriddinov was imprisoned for his religious activity.
In November 2005, Kazakh authorities detained and deported Fahriddinov, a scholar and independent imam, to Uzbekistan.…
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…
Wang Lingjie is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 23, 2017, authorities detained Wang while she was at the home of another church member. Police…
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…
Fang Ronghua was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 30, 2015, authorities detained Fang in Fuzhou City Dongtai city, Jiangsu province, reportedly in…
Gao Shengzhi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 14, 2015, police from the Taixing Public Security Bureau detained Gao after he came out of a church gathering…
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…
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…
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…
Chen Xiaoying was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On March 20, 2014, authorities detained Chen for allegedly organizing religious assemblies and being in possession…
Gao Xiuhong was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 25, 2014, police detained Gao while she was attending a religious service. Gao was reportedly tortured while…
Li Gang was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 19, 2017, officers from the Changji City Public Security Bureau detained Li reportedly for attending a religious…
Emir-Usein Kuku is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On February 11, 2016, authorities arrested Kuku, a member of the Crimean Human Rights Contact Group, following a raid on…
Loreto Hernández García is imprisoned for his religious leadership.
On July 16, 2021, Cuban authorities arrested Paseiro, the president of the Free Yoruba Association of Cuba, an independent…
Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo was imprisoned in relation to his religious leadership role.
On July 11, 2021, Rosales Fajardo, pastor and leader of the Monte de Sion Independent Church in…
Iskandar Iskandarov was imprisoned for gathering to discuss his religion.
In January 2020, authorities reportedly arrested Iskandarov for meeting with others to talk about Islam. …
Salman al-Ouda is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In September 2017, police arrested al-Ouda, a sheikh and Islamic scholar, from his home amid a state-wide wave…
Abdukhalil Abduzhabbarov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On February 18, 2017, Kazakh authorities arrested Abduzhabbarov, an imam, after extraditing him from Saudi…
Elshan Mustafaoglu was imprisoned for his religious expression and activism.
On December 17, 2014, authorities arrested Mustafaoglu, a Muslim scholar and former department head at the…
Ali al-Omari is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In September 2017, authorities arrested al-Omari, an Islamic scholar, talk-show personality, and chairman of TV…
Mohammed Issam al-Faraj is imprisoned for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
On June 29, 2017, authorities in Medina arrested al-Faraj for protesting the state's…
Jalal Labbad was imprisoned and executed for his religious identity and for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On February 23, 2017, authorities arrested Labbad from his family’s home…
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…
Rinat Kiramov is imprisoned for his religious activity and belief.
On November 9, 2021, authorities detained several individuals, including Kiramov, following raids on the homes of several…
Seyed Fariborz Shah-Ebrahimi was detained for their religious activity.
On November 18, 2022, authorities in Sahneh county, Kermanshah province, arrested at least 30 Yarsanis,…
Abdul Majeed Al-Arkani is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
In 2020, authorities arrested Al-Arkani, an imam, for being friendly with a prominent Turkish figure, Yasin…
Vadim Bektemirov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On July 7, 2020, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, detained Bektemirov among others after searching…
Farrukh Makhkamov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Shahboz Makhmudov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On November 18, 2019, Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in Tyumen arrested ten Muslims, including …
Bahram Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2013, authorities arrested Saparov after he was accused of being "…
Abdulmajid Moradzahi is detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On January 30, 2023, authorities arrested Moradzahi, a prominent Sunni cleric, during protests in Zahedan…
Reza Rasaei is imprisoned and sentenced to death for protesting religious freedom conditions.
In November 2022, Iranian security forces arrested Rasaei, a Yarsani adherant, in Karaj after…
Pan Hongming is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On August 11, 2022, authorities in Erdaojiang district, Tonghua municipality, Jilin province, detained four individuals,…
Gelo is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Tsedo is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Kori is detained for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained five…
Bamo is imprisoned for their religious activity.
On August 24, 2022, authorities in Seda (Serta) county, Ganzi (Kardze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAP), Sichuan province, detained…
Pavel Shreider was imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2024, armed National Security Committee officials arrested Shreider, a pastor of the banned True and…
Wang Zhongqiu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 4, 2021, authorities in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province detained Wang because of his religious activities with…