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Muhsinjon Ahmedov is detained for his religious activity. 

On October 20, 2023, French authorities again detained Ahmedov, this time keeping him in a deportation center before eventually…

Nizomiddin Nasriddinov is imprisoned for his online engagement with religiously based political parties. 

On January 8, 2023, Belarusian authorities arrested Nasriddinov as he entered the…

Arash Moradi is imprisoned on religiously-based charges for his social activism. 

In October 2023, Iranian security forces arrested Moradi, a Gonabadi Sufi and social activist, at his…

Ashyrbay Bekiev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On May 16, 2023, Russian authorities in Volkhov, Leningrad region, detained Bekiev on illegal immigration charges…

Mykhailo Britsyn is detained for his religious leadership role.

On September 11, 2022, Russian military detained Britsyn, a pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine, during a…

Mykhailo Reznikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.

On March 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Reznikov, a Baptist pastor, in Russian-occupied Mariupol…

Ali Badahdah is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

On September 12, 2017, security forces arrested Badahdah, an imam and professor of Hadith at King Abdul Aziz…

John Cao was imprisoned because of his religious identity and missionary work.

On March 5, 2017, the Menglian County Police of Yunnan Province detained Cao, a pastor, humanitarian worker,…

Abdukhalil Abduzhabbarov is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.

On February 18, 2017, Kazakh authorities arrested Abduzhabbarov, an imam, after extraditing him from Saudi…

Ablimit Hoshur Hajim is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In or around May 2018, state security officials in Urumqi municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained…