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Y Pum Bya is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 10, 2018, Vietnamese authorities arrested Y Pum Bya, a church leader, after accusing him of spreading false…
Y Min Ksor is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In April 2018, authorities arrested Ksor, a member of the unregistered Good News Missionary Church, during a police raid on a house…
Suleiman Bouhafs was imprisoned for his alleged expression about religion.
On August 25, 2021, three men in a black vehicle abducted Bouhafs – Chairman of the St. Augustine…
Khurram Parvez is detained for his religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2021, authorities arrested Parvez, a Muslim human rights advocate in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state.…
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…
Y Wo Nie is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 13, 2021, authorities arrested Nie, a member of an independent house church Dak Lak, for taking online…
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…
Arash Rasekhi was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Rasekhi and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for attending Baha’i…
Mehrallah Afshar was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Afshar and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Nasim Ghanvatian was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities arrested Ghanvatian and several other Baha’is in Bandar Abbas reportedly for…
Rona Wilson was detained for his human rights and civil rights work for marginalized religious communities.
On June 6, 2018, police in Maharashtra arrested…
Arun Ferreira was detained for his human rights and civil rights work for marginalized religious communities.
On August 28, 2018, police in Maharashtra arrested…
Sagar Tatyarao Gorakhe was detained for his human rights and civil rights work for marginalized religious communities.
On September 7, 2020, the National…
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…
Lina Alsharif was detained in relation to religious freedom advocacy.
In May 2021, officials from the Saudi Presidency of State Security raided Alsharif’s home in Riyadh, arrested her, and…
Teesta Setalvad was detained for her human rights work supporting minority religious communities.
On June 25, 2022, an antiterrorism squad in Mumbai arrested Setalvad, a human rights…
Ramiro Tijerino was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Tijerino, a priest, from leaving the…
Sadiel Eugarrios was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Eugarrios, a priest, from leaving…
Raúl Antonio Vega was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Antonio Vega, a deacon, from…
José Luis Díaz was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Luis Díaz, a priest, from leaving the…
Darvin Leiva was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Leiva, a seminarian, from leaving…
Melkin Sequeira was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Sequeira, a seminarian, from leaving…
Sergio Cárdenas was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Cárdenas, a cameraman, from…
Jagtar Singh Johal is detained for his religious belief and religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2017, over a dozen plainclothes officers arrested Jagtar Johal, a Sikh activist and…
Payam Vali is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 24, 2022, authorities in Karaj arrested Vali reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i. Security…
Enrique Martínez was detained for his religious leadership role.
On October 13, 2022, authorities reportedly violently arrested Martínez, the parish priest of St. Martha’s Church in…
Seyyed-Karam Abbasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On December 1, 2022, authorities in Saveh reportedly beat and arrested Abbasi, a Yarsani…
Syeed-Amin Abbasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On or around November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Abbasi, his brother Seyyed-Soroush…
Mansour Safayi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On December 12, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Safayi after summoning him.
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Siavash Hayati was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Hayati alongside other other Yarsani…
Kaki Farzad Almasi was detained in relation to his religious belief and civil rights work.
On November 30, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Almasi alongside other other…
Abdolhamid Masoumi Tehrani was detained in relation to criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On October 16, 2022, authorities in Tehran reportedly arrested Tehrani, an ayatollah…
Oscar Benavidez was imprisoned for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On August 14, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Benavidez, a priest, after he performed mass. …
Kamile Wayit is detained in relation to her ethnoreligious identity and her brother's human rights work.
On December 12, 2022, authorities in Atush (Atushi) city, Kizilsu (Kezilesu) Kyrgyz…
Irfan Mehraj is detained for religious freedom advocacy.
In March 2023, National Investigation Agency authorities arrested Mehraj, a human rights activist and journalist known for his…
Server Mustafayev is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.
On May 21, 2018, authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Mustafayev, co-founder of Crimean…
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 “…
To Hoang Chuong is imprisoned for his human rights advocacy for religious communities.
On or around July 31, 2023, Vietnamese authorities in Tra Vinh province arrested To Hoang Chuong…