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Raif Badawi was imprisoned for his religious freedom advoacy, expression about religion, and for criticizing religious authorities.
In June 2012, authorities arrested Badawi, a…
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee is imprisoned for her activism and criticism of state-endorsed religious interpretations.
On September 26, 2022, authorities arrested Iraee from her home in…
Ahmad al-Shamri is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In 2014, authorities arrested al-Shamri, accused him of using social media to insult or renounce Islam, and charged him…
Leah Sharibu is in EPC captivity for refusing to renounce her faith.
On February 19, 2018, the Islamic State - West Africa Province (…
Asif Masih is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In August 2017, authorities arrested 16-year-old Masih after he was accused of setting a Qur'an and another religious booklet on fire. A mob…
Mubarak Bala was imprisoned for exercising his freedom of belief.
On April 28, 2020, Kaduna State police arrested Bala, president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, from…
Annamurad Atdaev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In September 2016, authorities arrested Atdaev when he returned to Turkmenistan from Egypt, where he had been studying…
Huma Younus was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In October 2019, a man abducted 14-year-old Younus and forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. Her family subsequently filed…
Maira Shahbaz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In April 2020, three men abducted at gunpoint 14-year-old Maira Shahbaz, forced her to renounce her Christian faith,…
Abdughappar Abdurusul is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In July 2018, authorities in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture,…
Hebibulla Tohti is imprisoned for his religious scholarship and ethnoreligious identity.
In March 2017, security personnel in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (…
Buzeynep Abdureshit is imprisoned for her study abroad and ethnoreligious identity.
On March 29, 2017, public security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
Turnisa Metomur is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity.
In September 2016, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Metomur after…
Qurbanjan Turdibaqi is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
In January 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Turdibaqi after…
Shehzad Masih is imprisoned and sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy.
In July 2017, authorities arrested 16-year-old Masih after a coworker and another individual accused him of…
Asif Stephen was detained for blasphemy.
On August 12, 2017, authorities arrested Stephen - a minor at the time - after he was accused of burning pages of the Qur'an. A mob…
Helil Hashim is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.
In 2018, authorities in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (…
Abdulletip Abdurahman was imprisoned for travel-related reasons and his ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, public security officials in Qaraqash (Moyu) county, Hotan (Hetian) prefecture,…
Abuzer Abdughappar is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Abdughappar after returning to China from studying in Turkey. Abdughappar's detention…
Nurmemet Hajim is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.
In December 2017, authorities in Beijing detained Haijm, who had studied at an Urumqi Islamic institute and abroad in Egypt…
Hamid Soudad was imprisoned for his expression about religion.
On January 20, 2021, Soudad was arrested for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad reportedly…
Elijan Mamut is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities detained Mamut, a businessman, reportedly for his trips abroad and his money transfers to his daughters…
Ali al-Nimr was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.
In July 2012, authorities detained Al-Nimr, the nephew of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-…
Abdullah al-Zaher was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.
In March 2012, authorities detained al-Zaher, 15 years old at the time, for…
Ali Aboluhom is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In August 2021, authorities arrested Aboluhom for allegedly expressing ideas about atheism online. Prosecutors charged him with…
Murtaja Qureiris was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.
On September 20, 2014, authorities arrested Qureiris, who was 13 years old at the…
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 reportedly kidnapped 14-year-old Reena and her 15-year-old sister, Raveena, from their home in Gotki district,…
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…
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…
Ali Hassan al-Faraj is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2017, authorities in Medina arrested al-Faraj for protesting against the state's treatment…
Ahmed Abdul Wahid is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2017, authorities in Medina arrested al-Faraj for protesting against the state's treatment of…
Ali Mohammed Al Bati is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2017, authorities in Medina arrested Al Bati for protesting against the state's treatment…
Mohammed Hussein Al Nimr is detained for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2017, authorities in Medina arrested Al Bati for protesting against 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…
Paruru Daeng Tau is imprisoned for his religious expression.
On January 15, 2020, police in South Sulawesi arrested and charged Tau, the head of the Organization for Implementing the Mandate…
Muhammad Kece is imprisoned for his religious expression.
On August 24, 2021, authorities arrested Kece, a preacher, at his friend’s home in Bali after accusing him of posting videos on…
Apollinaris Darmawan was imprisoned for his religious expression.
In August 2020, Bandung police arrested Darmawan after he was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam on social…
Farid Zirgi Moghaddam is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In August 2019, intelligence agents detained Moghaddam in Birjand reportedly in relation to posts he made about…
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…
Yusef Mehrdad was imprisoned and executed on blasphemy-related charges.
In May 2020, authorities arrested Mehrdad from his home in Ardabil after accusing him and others of being a member…
Seyyed Sadrullah Fazeli Zare was imprisoned and executed on blasphemy-related charges.
In May 2020, authorities arrested Zare after accusing him and others of being a member of a Telegram…
Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In March 2018, security agents from the Presidency of State Security arrested Al-Sadhan for operating two anonymous…
Mohammed Zubair was detained for his expression about religion and in relation to his reporting on religious freedom conditions.
On June 27, 2022, Delhi police arrested Zubair, co-founder…
Zarvia Pervaiz was subjected to forced renunciation of faith.
In April 2022, 12-year-old Pervaiz, a Christian girl from Rawalpindi, Punjab Province, was abducted by a 40-year-old man…
Youssef al-Manasif is imprisoned and sentenced to death for his religious identity and religious freedom advocacy.
In April 2017, authorities arrested al-Manasif for participating in…
Abdullah al-Derazi was imprisoned and executed for his religious identity and for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On August 27, 2014, Tarut Island Police arrested al-Derazi in…
Shamkhal Eyvazov was detained for his religious activity.
In April 2018, customs officials arrested Eyvazov, a member of the Muslim Unity Movement (MUM), and his brother, Migdad Eyvazov,…
Zhang Chenghao was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 21, 2021, authorities from Fenyang city, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, reportedly detained Zhang,…
An Yankui was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 21, 2021, authorities from Fenyang city, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, reportedly detained An, a…
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 "…
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…
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…
Konchog Dragpa is detained in relation to his religious activity.
On or around October 29, 2023, authorities in Thewo (Diebu) county, Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu…
Sonam Gyatso is detained for their religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans,…
Gonkyab is detained for their religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans,…
Dradul is detained for his religious activity.
On December 18, 2022, security officials in Rikaze (Shigatse) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained three Tibetans, including…
Lina Lutfiawati is imprisoned for her religious expression.
In May 2023, police charged Lutfiawati with "disseminating information aimed at inflicting hatred or dissension on individuals and…
Fitsum-Berhan Gebrenegus is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2004, Eritrean police authorities arrested Gebrenegus, an Eritrean Orthodox priest at the…
Tekleab Mengisteab is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In November 2004, Eritrean police authorities arrested Mengisteab, an Eritrean Orthodox priest at the Mekane…