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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…
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)…
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…
Nguyen Bac Truyen was imprisoned for his religious freedom and human rights advocacy.
On July 30, 2017, Truyen, a lawyer and leader of…
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…
Chang Weiping, a lawyer known for defending individuals facing charges for their religious belief and practice, is detained for accusing authorities of torture.
On October 22, 2020, …
Hamid Soudad was imprisoned for his expression about religion.
On January 20, 2021, Soudad was arrested for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad reportedly…
Waleed abu al-Khair is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In April 2014, authorities arrested al-Khair for legally defending religious prisoners of conscience, including Raif…
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…
Gao Zhisheng remains forcibly disappeared for his work defending human rights and religious minorities.
On August 13, 2017, Gao, a human rights lawyer, was forcibly disappeared from his…
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 of…
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…
Tenzin Lhundrub is imprisoned in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
In May 2014, authorities detained Lhundrub, a scholar and monk from Gom Gonsar Monastery in …
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…
Bakhrom Khamroev is imprisoned for his human rights work for religious communities and his alleged religious expression.
On February 24, 2022, authorities arrested Khamroev, a human…
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…
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…