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Hayedeh Ram is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
In February 2017, intelligence agents of Bushehr province arrested Ram and several other Baha’is.
On an…
Le Tung Van is under house arrest for his religious activity.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as Tinh That Bong…
Le Thanh Hoan Nguyen was imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as…
Le Thanh Trung Duong is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as…
Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On January 4, 2022, authorities searched the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (also known as…
Cao Thi Cuc was imprisoned for her religious activity and expression.
On May 12, 2022, authorities arrested Cao Thi Cuc, a member of the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist Monastery (…
Le Thanh Nhi Nguyen is imprisoned for his religious activity and expression.
On May 27, 2022, authorities arrested Nguyen, a member of the THIÊN AM BÊN BỜ VŨ TRỤ (TABBVT) Buddhist…
Sepideh Rashnu was detained for resisting state-imposed religious dress.
On July 16, 2022, authorities arrested Rashnu following an altercation on a bus between a woman, who was…
Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani was imprisoned for her human rights work in support of the LGBTQI+ community.
On October 27, 2021, authorities detained Sedighi-Hamadani in Urumieh,…
Salma al-Shehab was imprisoned for her women's rights activism opposing state-imposed religious systems as well as her religious identity.
On January 15, 2021, authorities arrested al-…
Payam Vali is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 24, 2022, authorities in Karaj arrested Vali reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i. Security…
Oleg Danilov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 30, 2021, the Krasnodar Territory Abinsky District Court sentenced Danilov to three years in prison for “…
Rhoda Jatau was detained for blasphemy.
On May 20, 2022, authorities in Bauchi state arrested Jatau after riots broke out in response to a perceived blasphemous message she sent on…
Atash Shahkarami was detained for speaking out about the disappearance and murder of an anti-hijab protester.
On October 2, 2022, security forces arrested Shahkarami after she spoke with…
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…
Niloofar Hamedi was imprisoned for reporting on religious freedom conditions.
On September 22, 2022, authorities raided the home of Hamedi and arrested her in relation to her…
Maksim Morozov was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On August 6, 2021, authorities arrested Morozov after accusing him of "convening and holding meetings of its members and…
Yuriy Usanov was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On April 2, 2021, authorities arrested Usanov from his home after accusing him of "convening and holding meetings of its…
Nikolay Saparov is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On March 23, 2022, authorities in Maykop detained Saparov at the Mineralnye Vody airport for organizing…
Inver Siyukhov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On April 16, 2021, authorities in Maykop detained Siyukhov following raids on the homes of several Jehovah's…
Yuriy Yakovlev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On March 29, 2022, authorities in Sosnovoborsk detained Yakovlev following searches on the homes of several Jehovah's…
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…
Cepdika Eka Rismana is imprisoned for blasphemy.
On May 5, 2022, police in West Java province arrested Rismana after a video of him stepping on a Qur'an went viral. Authorities…
Roy Suryo was imprisoned for blasphemy.
On August 5, 2022, police arrested Suryo, the former Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs, for tweeting out an image of President Joko…
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…
Anatoli Zernichenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On October 15, 2021, authorities in Arys arrested Zernichenko for posting religious texts on Instagram and…
Khasan Abdirakhimov is in a labor camp for his independent religious activity.
On November 22, 2021, police took into custody Abdirakhimov. Abdirakhimov had originally been sentenced in…
Lotse is detained for his adherence to a religious figure.
On July 25, 2022, police in Sershul (Shiqu) county, Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, detained…
Cui Haoxin is detained for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On January 14, 2020, authorities in Ji’nan municipality, Shandong province, detained Cui, a religious poet,…
Ma Like is detained for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
In April 2017, authorities in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), detained Ma reportedly…
Ma Zhengxiu is detained for his religious belief and activity.
In April 2017, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur…
Aleksandr Dubovenko is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 1, 2022, the Armyansk City Court of the Republic of Crimea - Russian-occupied Ukraine - sentenced…
Aleksandr Litvinyuk is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 1, 2022, the Armyansk City Court of the Republic of Crimea - Russian-occupied Ukraine - sentenced…
Maryam Nematollahi is imprisoned for opposing state-mandated religious veiling.
On October 13, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nematollahi, an Instagram influencer and…
Reyhaneh Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting…
Ghazal Pakzad was detained in relation to her religious belief.
In January 2023, authorities in Zahedan reportedly arrested Pakzad for being Baha'i and supporting nationwide protests…
Matin Gorji was detained in relation to his religious belief and activity.
On January 8, 2023, authorities in Qaemshahr reportedly arrested Gorji, a Baha'i. Authorities…
Mahsa Mohammadi is detained for blasphemy.
On October 30, 2022, authorities reportedly detained Mohammadi, a university student in Sabzevar, over a tweet perceived as blasphemous.…
Hani Gibran was detained for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On June 4, 2022, police arrested Gibran after he posted about the targeting of the Coptic Christian community on…
Tulkun Astanov is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy and for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On November 22, 2020, authorities arrested Astanov, a religious…
Gratia Pello was imprisoned for his religious expression.
In December 2022, authorities in Surabaya, East Java, reportedly arrested Pello, a professor at a Christian theological school…
Ishtiaq Saleem is detained for alleged blasphemy.
In November 2022, authorities in Islamabad arrested Saleem after he was accused of sharing content deemed blasphemous on social media.…
Yegor Pogrebnyak was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On March 5, 2023, authorities in Vladivostok detained of several individuals, including Pogrebnyak, and searched their…
Yuriy Bycha was detained for his religious activity.
On March 5, 2023, authorities in Vladivostok detained of several individuals, including Bycha, and searched their homes.…
Sergey Novoselov was detained for his religious activity.
On March 5, 2023, authorities in Vladivostok detained of several individuals, including Novoselov, and searched their homes.…
Kishta Tutinova was under house arrest for her religious belief and activity.
On February 28, 2023, authorities in Elista detained Tutinova after searching her home and confiscating a…
Abdul Rashid Dawoodi is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.
In September 2022, police in Jammu and Kashmir arrested Dawoodi, a Sufi cleric and founder of the Tehreek-e-…
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…
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…
Manahel al-Otaibi is imprisoned for her religious freedom advocacy.
In November 2022, Saudi authorities arrested al-Otaibi, an online fitness influencer, for opposing religiously grounded…
Jahongir Ulugmurodov was imprisoned for his religious activities.
On an unspecified date, authorities detained Ulugmurodov for downloading and sharing a religious song with some classmates…
Oybek Khamidov is imprisoned for his religious activities.
On January 17, 2022, authorities arrested Khamidov for allegedly sharing illegal religious materials on social media to his…
Nikolai Bogoslavsky is imprisoned for his religious affiliation.
In April 2023, the City Court of Anapa sentenced Bogoslavsky, pastor of the Evangelical Christ the Savior Church, to 1…
Ahmad Al Malahi was detained for his religious activity.
On May 25, 2023, armed Houthi forces detained 17 Baha’is, including Al Malahi, after raiding a private residence in Sana’a where…
Victor Ticay was imprisoned for covering religious issues.
On April 6, 2023, police arrested and detained Ticay, a journalist, for recording a banned Easter celebration in Nandaime and…
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…
Yurii Herashchenko was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On March 22, 2023, Russian authorities arrested Herashchenko, a resident of Crimea, Ukraine, after accusing…
Sergei Parfenovich was under house arrest for his religious activity.
On September 28, 2022, Russian authorities in Krasnogvardeiskoe, Crimea, Ukraine, arrested Parfenovich…
He Binggang is imprisoned for his religious activity.
On October 9, 2021, authorities in Changning district, Shanghai municipality, arrested He in relation to his Falun Gong activities. He…
Zhang Yibo is imprisoned for her religious activity.
On October 9, 2021, authorities arrested Zhang in relation to her Falun Gong activities. She was brought to the Changing PSB Detention…
Keyvan Rahimian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On July 18, 2023, authorities in Tehran arrested Rahimian, a lecturer at an online Baha'i university, reportedly…
Mohammed al-Ghamdi is imprisoned for his religious freedom advocacy.
In June 2022, security forces in Mecca arrested al-Ghamdi at his home. Prosecutors accused him of…
Gabriela Morales was detained in relation to a crackdown on religious institutions.
On August 19, 2023, police detained Morales, who was a student at the Jesuit Juan Pablo II University.…
Nikita Zhuravel is imprisoned for blasphemy.
On May 20, 2023, authorities in the Volgograd region arrested 19-year-old Zhuravel after he allegedly posted a video online of himself burning…
Nourah al-Qahtani is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In July 2021, officers of the Presidency of State Security arrested al-Qahtani for advocating for human rights on social…
Wangchug Tso is detained for her adherence to a religious figure.
On October 26, 2023, authorities in Dola (Qilian) county, Tsojang (Haibei) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai province…
Semkyi Drolma is imprisoned for her religious activity.
In October 2023, police in Damshung (Dangxiong) county, Lhasa municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, detained Drolma for…
Tsomo is detained for her religious activity.
On November 23, 2023, authorities in Sershul (Shiqu) county, Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, detained…
Nyidron is detained for her religious activity.
On November 23, 2023, authorities in Sershul (Shiqu) county, Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, detained…
Samphel is detained for his religious activity.
On October 25, 2023, police in Geding (Jiding) town, Sakya (Sajia) county, Shigatse (Rikaze) municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, detained…
Julio Sevilla was imprisoned for his association with a religious organization.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Sevilla, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in the…
Julio Berríos was imprisoned for his association with a religious organization.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Berríos, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in the…
Bladimir Pallés is imprisoned for his religious association.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Pallés, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in the Diocese of Estelí.…
María Verónica Herrera Galeano was imprisoned for her association with a religious organization.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Galeano, a former employee of the Catholic charity…
Freydell Andino was imprisoned for their association with a religious organization.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Andino, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in…
Mariví Andino was imprisoned for their association with a religious organization.
In 2023, Nicaraguan authorities detained Andino, a former employee of the Catholic charity Caritas in 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…
Freylin Axarael Moreno Ponce was detained for his religious expression.
On June 2, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Moreno Ponce after he asked, on social media, for prayers for…
Elmar Mamedov is imprisoned for his alleged religious association.
On September 23, 2019, authorities detained Mamedov and others after accusing them of studying Islam and spreading…
Abdulhannon Usmonov is imprisoned for his religious activity and association.
In January 2023, authorities from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Khatlon region arrested Abdulhannon…
Freddy Quezada was imprisoned for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On November 29, 2023, the Nicaraguan authorities arrested Quezada, a professor, after he criticized the…
Aleksandr Chagan is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On February 29, 2024, the Central District Court of Tolyatti in the Samara Region sentenced Chagan to eight years in…
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…
Eduard Sharlot is detained for blasphemy.
On November 22, 2023, authorities detained Sharlot, a musician, at Pulkovo Airport and placed him under administrative arrest. Sharlot's…
Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Ikhtiyorhoja Kamolov, imam of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in…
Bakhtiyor Akbarov is detained for his religious activity.
In April 2024, authorities in Sughd region arrested Akbarov, a religious leader of the Khoja Muhammad Balodurkun mosque in the…
Asadullo Madraimov is imprisoned for his criticism of religious freedom violations.
In October 2023, Kyrgyz authorities arrested Madraimov for participating in a video that protested…
Mamirzhan Tashmatov was imprisoned for his criticism of religious freedom violations.
On October 18, 2023, Kyrgyz authorities arrested Madraimov for participating in a video that…
Assad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi was sentenced on religious-based charges related to social media activity criticizing the Saudi government, including the authorities’ sidelining of the Saudi religious…
Abdumutal Abdurahimov is imprisoned for his independent religious activity.
In May 2024, the Bog’dod District Court sentenced Abdurahimov to 12 years in prison for his affiliation with the…
Narges Nasri was detained for her religious conversion.
In November 2024, Iranian intelligence authorities detained Nasri after raiding her Tehran home, during which they confiscated…