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Liu Junhua is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 24, 2017, officers from the Heze Public Security Bureau Mudan Branch arrested Liu while he was writing…
Wu Baozhen is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 24, 2017, officers from the Heze Public Security Bureau Mudan Branch arrested Wu while he was writing scrips for…
Nahid Behshid was imprisoned for her religious expression and public support for a religious figure.
On January 28, 2019, authorities took Behshid into custody after a judge sentenced her…
Chen Ziquan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 14, 2019, police from the Dongxiang District Public Security Bureau in Fuzhou city, Jiangxi province, detained…
Nguyen Bac Truyen was imprisoned for his religious freedom and human rights advocacy.
On July 30, 2017, Truyen, a lawyer and leader of…
Bolatbek Dyusenbekovich Nurgaliyev was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Nurgaliyev for participating in a WhatsApp group chat…
Ernar Samatov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, Kazakh authorities arrested Samatov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam.…
Beket Mynbasov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, Kazakh authorities arrested Mynbasov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam…
Abdujelil Hajim is detained for his religious belief, activity, and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained several Uyghur…
Abdurehim Heyit is detained for his religious expression and ethnoreligious identity.
In April 2017, public security authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained…
Jume Nasir is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In July 2016, authorities detained Nasir reportedly for praying inside his business. Additional reasons…
Yahaya Sharif-Aminu is imprisoned for his religious expression.
In March 2020, authorities arrested Sharif-Aminu, a musician and follower of the Sufi Tijaniyyah Order, for allegedly…
Beyshihan Hoshur is detained for her religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In March 2018, authorities detained Hoshur and several other elderly women in relation to their…
Abdulla Abdurahman is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In March 2018, authorities in Pichan (Shanshan) county, Turpan (Tulufan) municipality, Xinjiang…
Yasin Tursun is imprisoned for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, authorities detained Tursan, a farmer and Communist Party member, reportedly for "…
Ziyawudun Choruq is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
On an unknown date in 2017, authorities in Korla (Ku’erle) city, Bayangol (Bayinguoleng) Mongol…
Tursun Hoshur is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In July 2017, public security authorities in Shaptul township, Peyziwat (Jiashi) county,…
Gheni Haji is imprisoned for his religious belief, activity, and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Haji and…
Memet Tursun Haji is imprisoned for his religious belief, activity, and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Haji,…
Imin Hajim is imprisoned for his religious belief, activity, and ethnoreligious identity.
In May 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Hajim, …
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, …
Hassan Farhan al-Maliki is detained for his religious expression and religious freedom advocacy.
In September 2017, authorities arrested al-Maliki, an…
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…
Abdulazeez Inyass is imprisoned for blasphemy.
In May 2015, Nigerian authorities arrested Inyass for allegedly saying that Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse, the founder of the Tijaniya order to…
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…
Reda Abdel Rahman was detained for his religious belief.
On August 22, 2020, security forces arrested Abdel Rahman, a teacher and َQur'anist blogger, alongside several relatives. A few…
Nazim Abdrakhmanov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Abdrakhmanov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam…
Samat Adilov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Adilov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam.
On…
Zhasulan Iskakov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Iskakov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam.…
Esim Suleimenov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Suleimenov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about Islam.…
Azamat Umbetaliyev was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Umbetaliyev for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about…
Zhuldyzbek Taurbekov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On October 27, 2018, authorities arrested Taurbekov for participating in a WhatsApp group chat about…
Dilmurat Sultanmuratovich Makhamatov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On December 19, 2018, Kazakh authorities arrested Makhamatov after reportedly forcing…
Nariman Seytzhanov was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 15, 2017, authorities arrested Seytzhanov reportedly over a meeting he had in a coffeeshop in…
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…
Fazilhoja Arifhojaev is under house arrest for his religious expression.
On June 28, 2021, authorities arrested Arifhojaev, a blogger known for his criticism of the government's religious…
Elshan Mustafaoglu was imprisoned for his religious expression and activism.
On December 17, 2014, authorities arrested Mustafaoglu, a Muslim scholar and former department head at the…
Aleksey Yershov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In July 2020, security forces raided the home of Yershov and other Jehovah's Witnesses. They reportedly…
Andrey Kolesnichenko was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In July 2020, authorities raided the home of Kolesnichenko and other Jehovah's Witnesses and confiscated…
Wangchen is detained for his religious activity.
In June 2023, police in Lhasa municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detained Wangchen while he was on pilgrimage with his family.…
Thubten Pema Lhundrub is detained for adherence to a religious figure.
On May 14, 2019, public security officials in Kangtsa (Gangcha) county, Tsojang (Haibei) Tibetan Autonomous…
Sulaiman al-Dowaish was forcibly disappeared for his religious expression.
In April 2016, al-Dowaish, a religious scholar, was forcibly disappeared after posting tweets summarizing a…
Omar Abdullah al-Saadoun is detained for her religious freedom advocacy.
In July 2021, authorities arrested Omar Abdullah al-Saadoun, a cleric and legal advisor, after he wrote an article…
Omar al-Muqbil is imprisoned for his religious expression and religious freedom advocacy.
In September 2019, authorities arrested al-Muqbil, a cleric, for a sermon criticizing concerts…
Saleh Al Talib is imprisoned for his religious expression leadership.
In August 2018, authorities arrested Talib, an imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, following a sermon he gave criticizing…
Yevgeny Tarasov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Tarasov, after raiding their homes and…
Mukazhan Ksyupov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Ksyupov, after raiding their homes and…
Parviz Zeynalov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Zeynalov, after raiding their homes and…
Urdash Abdullayev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Abdullayev, after raiding their homes and…
Ilmir Abdullin was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Abdullin, after raiding their homes and…
Nikolay Nesterovich was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On October 5, 2021, authorities in Moscow arrested six men, including Nesterovich, after raiding their homes…
Aleksey Dyadkin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 21, 2020, authorities arrested Dyadkin after he meeting with investigators for questioning.…
Aleksey Goreliy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2020, authorities arrested Goreliy after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses and…
Nikita Moiseyev was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2020, authorities arrested Moiseyev after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses and…
Vladimir Popov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 12, 2020, authorities arrested Popov after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses and…
Yevgeniy Razumov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2020, authorities arrested Razumov after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses and…
Oleg Shidlovskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On August 8, 2020, authorities arrested Shidlovskiy after raiding the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses and…
Roman Baranovskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 10, 2019, authorities in Abkan arrested Baranovskiy following raids on the homes of Jehovah's…
Ioann Kurmoyarov was imprisoned for his religious beliefs.
On June 7, 2022, authorities arrested Kurmoyarov, a hieromonk, after he posted several videos on his YouTube channel outlining…
Yaroslav Kalin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Kalin following raids on the homes of several…
Sergey Kosteyev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Kosteyev following raids on the homes of several Jehovah'…
Nikolay Martynov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Martynov following raids on the homes of several Jehovah…
Mikhail Moysh is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Moysh following raids on the homes of several Jehovah's…
Igor Popov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 30, 2021, authorities in Mezhdurechensk detained Popov following a raid on his home. Investigators had…
Denis Sarazhakov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 30, 2021, authorities in Askiz detained Sarazhakov following a raid on his home.…
Aleksey Solnechny is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Solnechny following raids on the homes of…
Andrey Tolmachev is impisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Tolmachev following raids on the homes of…
Sergey Vasilyev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 4, 2021, authorities in Irkutsk detained Tolmachev following raids on the homes of several…
Yevgeniy Zhukov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 1, 2020, Russian authorities in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, detained Zhukov following searches on…
Vladimir Maladyka is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 1, 2020, Russian authorities in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, detained Maladyka following…
Vladimir Sakada is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 1, 2020, Russian authorities in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, detained Sakada following searches on…
Sergey Ananin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On February 14, 2021, authorities in Belovo detained Ananin after searching the homes of several Jehovah's Witnesses. He…
Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim was detained in relation to his religious leadership role and religious expression.
On October 15, 2022, authorities arrested Tsalim, the Catholic bishop of…
Mihretab Stefanos was detained in relation to his religious leadership role and religious expression.
On October 11, 2022, authorities arrested, Stefanos, the priest of St.…
Abraham Habtom Gebremariam was detained in relation to his religious leadership role and religious expression.
In October 2022, authorities arrested Gebremariam, a Capuchin abbot. …
Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo was detained for his religious conversion.
On December 15, 2021, authorities arrested Abdo, a Yemeni refugee, from his Cairo home. Abdo's arrest followed his…
Jumanazar Hojambetow is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early summer 2017, authorities arrested Hojambetow and four others for meeting to pray and study the writings of…
Begejik Begejikow is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early summer 2017, authorities arrested Begejikow and four others for meeting to pray and study the writings of Said…
Ahmet Mammetdurdyyew is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early summer 2017, authorities arrested Mammetdurdyyew and four others for meeting to pray and study the writings…
Meret Owezow is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early summer 2017, authorities arrested Owezow and four others for meeting to pray and study the writings of Said Nursi,…
Myratdurdy Shamyradow is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early summer 2017, authorities arrested Shamyradow and four others for meeting to pray and study the writings of…
Aleksandr Gabyshev is detained for his religious expression, belief, and activity.
On January 27, 2021, authorities arrested Gabyshev and sent him to a psychiatric hospital after…
Muhammad Mustafa is detained for not engaging in religious activities according to the standards of a non-state entity.
On May 31, 2021, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham forces reportedly arrested…
Ali Shaker is detained for not engaging in religious activities according to the standards of a non-state entity.
On May 31, 2021, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham forces reportedly arrested Shaker…
Abdul Majeed Al-Arkani is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
In 2020, authorities arrested Al-Arkani, an imam, for being friendly with a prominent Turkish figure, Yasin…
Khaled Al-Rashed is imprisoned for his religious expression and association.
In March 2006, Saudi authorities arrested Al-Rashed, a cleric, for his membership in the Movement of Reformers…
Sergey Kardakov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Kardakov to six years and…
Sergey Yermilov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Yermilov to six years and…
Adam Svarichevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Svarichevskiy to six…
Anton Olshevskiy is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Olshevskiy to six years…
Sergey Afanasiyev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 21, 2022, the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region sentenced Afanasiyev to six years…
Wang Shunping was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Wang, a…
Nu Sangdeng was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Nu …
San Luobo was detained for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including San after…
Hua Xiuxia was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Hua after…
Dong Mengru was detained for her religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities in Fugong county, Nujiang, Yunnan province, reportedly detained five individuals, including Dong…
Anwar Kenneth was imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy.
In 2001, authorities reportedly arrested Kenneth after he was accused of writing letters perceived as blasphemous towards…
Mikhail Simonov is imprisoned for criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine with religious language.
On November 9, 2022, authorities in Moscow arrested Simonov over two social media posts he…
Aleksey Ukhov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 22, 2020, authorities in Sovetskaya Gavan detained Ukhov after searching his home. Investigators accused…
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…