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Tashi Wangchuk was imprisoned for his religious and ethnic identity.

On January 27, 2016, authorities arrested Tashi, a Tibetan cultural and linguistic rights advocate, in Yushu (Kyegudo)…

Aramais Avakian was imprisoned in relation to his religious identity.

On September 4, 2015, authorities arrested Avakian, a Christian fish farmer, after being accusing him of being an…

Bui Van Tham was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.

On June 26, 2017, authorities arrested Tham following a state crackdown on a Hoa Hao Buddhist event in April 2017.…

Le Thi Hong Hanh was imprisoned for her religious identity and activity.

On November 13, 2017, authorities arrested Hanh following a state crackdown on a Hoa Hao Buddhist event in April…

Zhu Ya is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In April 2017, public security officials from Huangpi district, Wuhan municipality, Hubei province, detained Zhu in…

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…

Wu Lin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On July 21, 2017, police from Lishui, Zhejiang province, arrested Wu reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role,…

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…

Wang Huanhuan was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On July 16, 2014, police from Ningguo City, Anhui Province, detained Wang reportedly in relation to her religious…

Ren Guixia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On February 18, 2015, police detained Ren at her home reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role, organizing of…

Luo Yanping was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On December 11, 2012, officers from the Tonglu County Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang province detained Luo reportedly for…

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…

Sun Xia was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 5, 2013, authorities detained Sun in Yaohai district, Hefei city, Anhui province, reportedly in relation…

Yan Fenglin was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 5, 2013, authorities detained Yan in Yaohai district, Hefei city, Anhui province, reportedly in relation to…

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…

Feng Yimei was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In July 2014, authorities arrested Feng reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs, attending of religious meetings,…

Geng Hongmei was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On August 1, 2015, officers from the the Taixing City Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu province detained Geng reportedly…

Zhou Xiangyun was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 17, 2013, police in Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, detained Zhou reportedly in relation to his printing of…

Hu Weijun was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 17, 2013, police in Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, detained Hu reportedly in relation to his printing of…

Wu Meixia is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 8, 2017, officers from the Wuhai Public Security Bureau detained Wu reportedly in relation to her religious…

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 Xiaochun was imprisoned for distributing religious materials.

In September 2019, authorities arrested Li after catching him handing out Falun-Gong-related materials. 

In…

Zeng Yinlang was imprisoned for distributing religious materials. 

In September 2019, authorities arrested Zeng as she was distributing Falun Gong-related materials in Susong…

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…

Zhao Yuelian was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On April 22, 2015, officers from the Taiyuan Public Security Bureau arrested Zhao reportedly in relation to her…

Liu Jishui was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On August 30, 2017, officers from the Liuhe District Branch of Nanjing Public Security Bureau, Jiangsu province, arrested…

Zhu Huiru was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On December 13, 2012, police detained Zhu reportedly in relation to her printing of religious materials.

On…

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…

Yu Jianwu 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…

Zhou Jiarong is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On February 28, 2018, authorities detained Zhou reportedly in relation to her religious leadership role and printing of…

Wu Yanping is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On June 7, 2017, officers from the Wanzhou District Public Security Bureau detained Wu reportedly in relation to her…

Li Yuanyou was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In September 2018, authorities arrested Li for distributing Falun Gong-related materials.

In December 2019, Li was reportedly…

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…

Fu Deju was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In July 2019, authorities arrested Fu for distributing Falun Gong-related materials.  Police reportedly confiscated cash from her…

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. …

Wang Yingxia was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In August 2018, authorities arrested Wang for distributing Falun Gong-related materials.  She was charged with "…

Li Guo was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In May 2018, authorities arrested Li while he was allegedly distributing out Falun Gong-related materials. Police reportedly…

Han Ling was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In May 2019, authorities arrested Han for distributing Falun Gong-related materials. 

In December 2019, the…

Wen Yan was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On April 3, 2018, authorities arrested Wen while she was hanging Falun Gong-related banners.  

In late 2019, Wen…

Jiang Liyu was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In May 2017, authorities arrested Jiang for putting up flyers about Falun Gong.

In July 2018, the Shijingshan District…

Hu Mingfa is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On August 13, 2014, officers from the Lingyang Police Station of the Public Security Bureau in Qingyang county detained Hu…

Xu Yunxue was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In August 2014, officers from the Taixing City Public Security Bureau detained Xu reportedly in relation to her handling of…

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…

Wang Guimin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On May 23, 2017, authorities arrested Wang reportedly in relation to her religious beliefs and work printing books for the…

Xu Guixiang was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On January 10, 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Xu reportedly…

Tian Yiqin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

In March 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Tian reportedly in…

Shao Xingfu is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In March 2018, officers from the Public Security Bureau in the Mosuowan Reclamation Area detained Shao reportedly in…

Meng Lizhi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 11, 2018, officers from the Yining City Public Security Bureau detained Meng reportedly for her religious…

Li Famei was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On March 25, 2017, officers from the the Fuyun County Public Security Bureau arrested Li reportedly in relation to…

Liu Xifang was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In June 2019, authorities arrested Liu from her mother's home in Huimin county, Shandong province, after accusing her of handing…

Yu Shourong was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In June 2019, authorities arrested Yu for talking to people about Falun Gong in public and distributing Falun Gong-related…

Shi Qiaoyun was placed under house arrest for her religious activity. 

In May 2019, authorities reportedly detained Shi after accusing her of distributing Falun Gong-related materials…

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…

Dong Jinping was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

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

In April 2020, the Wangjiang…

Wu Jianming was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On December 14, 2018, authorities arrested Wu for allegedly sharing information about Falun Gong and charged him with…

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…

Sung A Khua was imprisoned in relation to his religious identity. 

On January 2, 2019, Sung was sentenced to two years and two months in prison. Prior to the ruling, Sung and his…

Wei Zaiqiang was imprisoned for his religious activity.

In December 2016, authorities arrested Wei after accusing him of leaving messages about Falun Gong in public areas. Police…

Shi Peiling was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In April 2019, authorities arrested Shi from her home after accusing her of passing out Falun Gong-related materials.

In May…

Murtiza Memet is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity.

On an unspecified date believed to have been in 2018, authorities detained Memet for reportedly sending “illegal…

Mehmut Memet is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In 2017, authorities in Uchturpan (Wushi) county, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Memet for…

Zuo Aifeng was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

In March 2017, authorities arrested Zuo after accusing her of passing out Falun Gong-related materials. 

In May…

Hu Yating was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In August 2018, authorities arrested Hu reportedly for passing out Falun Gong-related materials to a student.

In 2019, Hu was…

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…

Zhu Surong was imprisoned for her religious activity.

In October 2019, authorities arrested after accusing her of handing out Falun Gong-related materials.

In September 2020, Zhu…

Lhundrub Dorje was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On July 14, 2020, authorities arrested Lhundrub reportedly for sharing images and teachings of the Dalai Lama online…

Rainur Ibatullin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Ibatullin after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Arslan Salimzyanov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Salimzyanov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Airat Shakirov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Shakirov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Nail Yunusov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On May 19, 2015, authorities arrested Yunusov after accusing him of being a member of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir…

Donaida Pérez Paseiro is imprisoned for her religious leadership.

On July 16, 2021, Cuban authorities arrested Paseiro, the president of the Free Yoruba Association of Cuba, an independent…

Elizabeth Cintra García was imprisoned in relation to her religious identity and activity.

On July 15, 2021, authorities detained García, a member of the Free Yoruba Association of…

Wang Weiqing is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 11, 2019, authorities from Jiujiang municipality, Jiangxi province, arrested Wang after accusing her of distributing Falun…

Ding Shumei is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On October 30, 2017, authorities detained Ding Shumei and Huang Liping after police allegedly caught them distributing Falun Gong…

Li Yanchun is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Li and his wife, …

Pei Yuxian was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Pei and her husband,…

Zheng Jinling was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On September 6, 2015, authorities from from Tongliao municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), arrested four Falun…

Ding Lijie was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On January 7, 2019, police in Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, detained Ding alongside two colleagues after…

Liu Fengbao was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On January 7, 2019, police in Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, detained Liu alongside two colleagues after…

Guo Yuzhen was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On December 31, 2018, authorities detained Guo in Wukeshu town, Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, for allegedly…

Ding Guozhu was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Ding, after they had allegedly shared information…

Zhang Chuanwen was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Xu Junying was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Xu, after they had allegedly shared information about…

Yang Xiufang was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Yang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Wang Haichao was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Wang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Liu Jianhui is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression. 

On October 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Liu. Reports…

Hu Yanling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 11, 2018, authorities arrested Hu in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…

Sun Ping is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On November 15, 2018, authorities detained Sun in Zibo city, Shandong province, for allegedly burning CDs and providing…

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…

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-…

Dawood al-Marhoun was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.

On May 21, 2012, authorities arrested al-Marhoun, who was 17 years old at the time…

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…

Patrick George Zaki was imprisoned for his expression about his religious identity.

On February 7, 2020, authorities arrested Zaki, a graduate student and human rights researcher, at…

Ma Yitao is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On September 10, 2017, police in Bei’an city, Heihe municipality, Heilongjiang province, arrested Ma and two colleagues for allegedly…

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…