Gulmira Imin is imprisoned for her ethnoreligious identity and protesting against Uyghur treatment.

On July 14, 2009, Imin, web administrator for the Uighur-language website Salkin, was…

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 Ruiling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

August 31, 2017, officers from the Xuzhou City Pei County Public Security Bureau and the Zizhuang Town Police…

Xu Yanping is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On June 29, 2018, officers from the Poyang County Public Security Bureau of Shangrao city detained Xu reportedly in relation…

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…

Wu Binrong was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 18, 2013, officers from the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau Jiangning Branch detained Wu reportedly…

Li Tianhua was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On April 9, 2015, authorities in Wanzhou district, Chongqing municipality detained Li, a leader of the Church of…

Li Anqun was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On February 11, 2014, police arrested Li reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs. She had reportedly been…

Yu Hai is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 4, 2017, officers from the National Security Brigade of Chengde City Public Security Bureau detained Yu in the…

Deng Cuiping was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On July 24, 2016, officers from the Public Security Bureau in Chengjiang County detained Deng and four others for distributing Falun…

Yao Guofu was imprisoned for distributing religious materials.

On December 5, 2015, plainclothes police officers detained Yao and his wife, Liang Xin, from their home in Nanyang…

Zhou Shuxian was imprisoned for distributing religious materials. 

In July 2019, authorities arrested Zhou for distributing Falun Gong materials. It is reported that Zhou was beaten…

Zhou Yuzhen was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In April 2019, authorities arrested Zhou in Jinzhou city after being accusing her of distributing Falun Gong materials. …

Yan Shihua was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On October 27, 2014, authorities detained Yan in Yaohai District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, reportedly in relation to his…

Yu Zhi was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In July 2019, authorities arrested Yu for handing out Falun Gong-related materials.

In April 2020, the Wangjiang County Court…

Pan Feng is imprisoned for his religious activity.

In April 2018, authorities arrested Pan after accusing him of handing out Falun-Gong related materials.

On an unspecified date,…

Lei Anxiang was imprisoned for his religious activity.  

In June 2019, authorities arrested Lei after accusing him of handing out Falun Gong-related materials. 

In…

Ye Zhongqiu was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In November 2016, authorities arrested Ye alongside other Falun Gong adherents for passing out Falun Gong calendars. 

In…

Jin Hong was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In December 2019, authorities arrested Jin after accusing her of handing out Falun Gong-related materials. Police reportedly…

Servet Gaziyev is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity. 

On March 27, 2019, authorities arrested Gaziyev, an activist for the Crimean Solidarity movement, after officers…

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…

Abdurazzak Shamseden is imprisoned in relation to his ethnoreligious identity. 

On April 18, 1998, authorities detained Shamseden after his nephew, Hammat Muhemmet, and other Uyghur…

Tohir Djumanov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On August 6, 1999, authorities arrested Djumanov in Tashkent after accusing him of distributing Hizb ut-Tahrir literature.

Ubaydulla Murtazoyev was imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

On September 5, 2019, authorities detained Murtazoyev for allegedly storing with the purpose of distributing…

Aimidoula Waili was detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In November 2020, Saudi Arabian authorities arrested Waili, a Uyghur Muslim and religious scholar, following an extradition…

Raim Ayvazov is imprisoned for his alleged religious activity.

On April 17, 2019, authorities detained Ayvazov, an activist from the Crimean Solidarity movement, at a border crossing…

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…

Abdulmajid Moradzahi is detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.

On January 30, 2023, authorities arrested Moradzahi, a prominent Sunni cleric, during protests in Zahedan…

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…

Abolfazl Pour-Hosseini is imprisoned for his religious activity.

In June 2023, authorities in Karaj detained Pour-Hosseini reportedly while he was passing out a leaflet about Erfan-e-Halgheh…