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Savita Singh was detained in relation to her religious belief and activity.
In October 2021, authorities arrested Singh and her husband, Nandha Nathaniel, after they were accused of…
Liu Honggeng is imprisoned for his religious leadership role and for practicing his religion without state-approval.
On May 7, 2015, authorities in Baoding city, Hebei province,…
Dechen Choedron was forcibly disappeared for her son's religious leadership role.
On May 17, 1995, authorities abducted Choedron her then six-year old son Gedhun Choekyi Nyima,…
Konchog Phuntsog was forcibly disappeared for his son's religious leadership role.
On May 17, 1995, authorities abducted Phuntsog, his then six-year old son Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, and…
Lobsang Tenzin is imprisoned for his religious belief and adherence to a religious figure.
In June 2014, public security officials in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) arrested…
Ali Badahdah is imprisoned in relation to his religious activity and leadership.
On September 12, 2017, armed soldiers arrested Badahdah, an imam and professor of hadith at King Abdul Aziz…
Abdullah Basfar is imprisoned for his religious activity and leadership.
In August 2020, authorities arrested Basfar, an imam, professor, well-known Qur’an reciter, and former Secretary-…
Fariba Kamalabadi was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.
On July 31, 2022, security forces arrested Kamalabadi in Tehran after raiding her home.
In…
Ramiro Tijerino was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Tijerino, a priest, from leaving the…
Sadiel Eugarrios was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Eugarrios, a priest, from leaving…
Raúl Antonio Vega was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Antonio Vega, a deacon, from…
José Luis Díaz was imprisoned in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On August 4, 2022, police prevented several people, including Luis Díaz, a priest, from leaving the…
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…
Joseph Shahbazian is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On June 30, 2020, authorities arrested Shahbazian, a house-church leader, following raids targeting house-churches…
Enayatollah Naeimi is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On September 28, 2022, authorities in Isfahan arrested Naeimi reportedly in relation to his being Baha'i. …
Leonid Ponomaryov was disappeared for his religious beliefs and activity.
On September 21, 2022, armed men in military uniform abducted Ponomaryov, a Baptist pastor, and his wife from…
Tatyana Ponomaryov was disappeared for her religious beliefs and activity.
On September 21, 2022, armed men in military uniform abducted Ponomaryov and her husband, a Baptist pastor, from…
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…
Artur Kozhevnikov was disappeared in relation to his religious leadership role.
On April 9, 2022, Russian military forces detained Kozhevnikov, the chairman of the Council of the German…
Valentin Zhuravlov was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On June 18, 2022, Russian armed forces detained Zhuravlev, a Protestant pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine…
Mykhailo Britsyn was detained for his religious leadership role.
In September 2022, Russian military detained Britsyn, a pastor, in Russian-occupied Melitopol, Ukraine, during a religious…
Cui Tai is detained for his religious leadership role.
On June 19, 2020, police in Zhangjiakou municipality, Hebei province, detained Cui Tai, a Catholic bishop, reportedly in…
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. …
Geng Zejun was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On December 5, 2021, authorities from Huinong district detained Geng, pastor of the house church Church of…
Yang Jianxin is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
In early 2021, authorities detained Yang, pastor of a house church, for “conducting illegal business operations” and “…
Yang Rongli is detained for her religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Yang and her husband Wang Xiaoguang, who…
Wang Xiaoguang is detained for his religious activity.
On August 7, 2021, authorities in Linfen municipality, Shanxi province, detained Wang and his wife Yang Rongli, who are…
An Yankui was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.
On November 21, 2021, authorities from Fenyang city, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, reportedly detained An, a…
Enrique Martínez was detained for his religious leadership role.
On October 13, 2022, authorities reportedly violently arrested Martínez, the parish priest of St. Martha’s Church in…
Hkalam Samson was imprisoned for his religious activity and religious leadership role.
On December 4, 2022, authorities arrested Samson, a pastor and advisor to the Kachin…
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…
Abdolhamid Masoumi Tehrani was detained in relation to criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On October 16, 2022, authorities in Tehran reportedly arrested Tehrani, an ayatollah…
Serhiy Karpenko was disappeared for his religious leadership role.
On December 12, 2022, Russian soldiers detained Karpenko, pastor of the Vefil (Bethel) Protestant Church in…
Oscar Benavidez was imprisoned for criticizing religious freedom conditions.
On August 14, 2022, authorities reportedly arrested Benavidez, a priest, after he performed mass. …
Thian Lian Sang is imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
In September 2021, authorities arrested Sang, a Chin Baptist pastor, amid a wave of detentions by the Burmese Army of…
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-…
Jaime Iván Montesinos Sauceda was detained in relation to criticism of religious freedom conditions.
On May 23, 2023, police arrested Montesinos Sauceda, the parish priest of San Juan…
Eugenio Rodríguez Benavides is detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 20, 2023, police arrested Rodríguez Benavides, parish priest of Divina…
Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrez was detained in relation to his religious beliefs and activities.
On May 22, 2023, police arrested Guevara Gutiérrez, parish priest of Estelí…
Stanislav Moskvitin was imprisoned for his religious leadership role.
On March 13, 2023, the Kirovsky District Court of Omsk sentenced Moskvitin, the the pastor of the New…
Nikolai Ulitin is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In August 2022, authorities detained Ulitin, pastor of the Pentecostal Christ the Savior Church, following searches on…
Svyatoslav Yugov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In April 2023, authorities detained Yugov, former pastor of the New Generation Church in Chelyabinsk. Yugov…
Fernando Zamora Silva was detained for his religious belief and activity.
On July 9, 2023, police detained Zamora Silva, a Catholic priest and the chancellor of the Diocese of Siuna…
Bahram Saparov is imprisoned for his religious activity.
In March 2013, authorities arrested Saparov after he was accused of being "…
Abdulmajid Moradzahi is detained for protesting religious freedom conditions.
On January 30, 2023, authorities arrested Moradzahi, a prominent Sunni cleric, during protests in Zahedan…
Abdolaziz Omarzahi is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On April 30, 2023, authorities arrested Omarzahi, a lecturer at the Makki seminary school…
Abdollah Barahouie is detained in relation to protesting religious freedom conditions.
On August 12, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Barahouie, a scholar at the Madineh al…
Fathi Mohammad Naghshbandi is detained for his religious activity.
On August 20, 2023, authorities reportedly arrested Naghshbandi, the imam and Friday prayer leader in Rask,…
Osman José Amador Guillén is detained for his religious activity and belief.
On September 8, 2023, police arrested Amador, a parish priest in Wiwilí, late at night while he was…
Julio Ricardo Norori is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Norori, a priest at the…
Iván Centeno is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Iván Centeno, a priest at the…
Cristóbal Gadea is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 1, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Cristóbal Gadea, a priest…
Álvaro Toledo is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 5, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Álvaro Toledo, a priest at…
Ramón Esteban Angulo Reyes is detained for his religious belief, religious activity, and religious leadership role.
On October 8, 2023, Nicaraguan authorities arrested Ramón Esteban…
Wan Changchun is detained for his religious belief and activity.
On April 11, 2023, authorities from Yuhui district, Bengbu municipality, Anhui province detained Wan, a pastor from the…