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Ding Shumei is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On October 30, 2017, authorities detained Ding Shumei and Huang Liping after police allegedly caught them distributing Falun Gong…

Li Yanchun is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Li and his wife, …

Pei Yuxian was imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On November 25, 2018, authorities from Lulong county, Qinhuangdao municipality, Hebei province, detained Pei and her husband,…

Zheng Jinling was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On September 6, 2015, authorities from from Tongliao municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), arrested four Falun…

Ding Lijie was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On January 7, 2019, police in Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, detained Ding alongside two colleagues after…

Liu Fengbao was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On January 7, 2019, police in Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, detained Liu alongside two colleagues after…

Guo Yuzhen was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On December 31, 2018, authorities detained Guo in Wukeshu town, Yushu city, Changchun municipality, Jilin province, for allegedly…

Ding Guozhu was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Ding, after they had allegedly shared information…

Zhang Chuanwen was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Zhang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Xu Junying was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Xu, after they had allegedly shared information about…

Yang Xiufang was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Yang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Wang Haichao was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 21, 2018, authorities detained five Falun Gong practitioners, including Wang, after they had allegedly shared information…

Hamid Soudad was imprisoned for his expression about religion.

On January 20, 2021, Soudad was arrested for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad reportedly…

Wang Baoyu is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…

Xiong Chengxia is imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…

Na Renzhi was imprisoned for their religious activity.

On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…

Ma Baoling was imprisoned for her religious activity.

On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…

Gao Jianjun was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On June 5, 2018, authorities in Haizhou district, Lianyungang municipality, Jiangsu province, detained 11 Lianyungang residents,…

Yang Hua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On October 30, 2018, authorities detained Yang in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her religious…

Chen Fuzhi is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On October 30, 2018, authorities detained Chen in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her…

Huang Jun is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On October 30, 2018, authorities arrested Huang in Yichang City, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her…

Jiang Yanghua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On August 21, 2019, authorities from Aksu city detained Jiang in Aksu, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR),…

Wan Yuqin is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 31, 2017, authorities detained Wan in Yichang city, Hubei province, reportedly in relation to her religious…

Zhang Keqiong was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 31, 2017, authorities detained Zhang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…

Yang Cuifeng is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Yang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…

Yang Ziyu is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Yang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity. …

Luo Kemei is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Luo in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…

Tang Yunfang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Tang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity.…

Wang Chunxiang is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On November 10, 2017, authorities detained Wang in Hubei province reportedly in relation to her religious activity…

Li Cui was imprisoned for her religious belief and activity. 

On May 9, 2018, police arrested Li after raiding a house in Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, where Li and others were…

Yang Caiyong is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On May 9, 2018, police arrested Yang after raiding a house in Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, where Yang and…

Feng Wenran is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On September 19, 2018, authorities detained Feng in Nanyang city, Henan province.

On October 28, 2018, Feng…

Li Xiao is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression. 

On December 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Li. Reports suggest…

Liu Jianhui is imprisoned for her religious activity and expression. 

On October 2, 2018, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Liu. Reports…

Hu Yanling is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 11, 2018, authorities arrested Hu in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…

Gong Donghua is imprisoned for her religious belief and activity.

On October 23, 2018, authorities detained Gong in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Reports suggest that…

Sun Ping is imprisoned for her religious activity. 

On November 15, 2018, authorities detained Sun in Zibo city, Shandong province, for allegedly burning CDs and providing…

Elijan Mamut is detained for his ethnoreligious identity.

In May 2017, authorities detained Mamut, a businessman, reportedly for his trips abroad and his money transfers to his daughters…

Akram Eslam is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity. 

In February 2018, authorities reportedly detained Eslam, a vice principle, in relation to his religiosity and Islamic…

Abliz Tohti is imprisoned for his ethnoreligious identity and religious activity. 

In May 2017, authorities arrested Tohti alongside 15 other men reportedly on the charge of “illegal…

Abdurazzak Shamseden is imprisoned in relation to his ethnoreligious identity. 

On April 18, 1998, authorities detained Shamseden after his nephew, Hammat Muhemmet, and other Uyghur…

Usman Darvyshov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On February 18, 2009, Uzbek security services detained Darvyshov, a boxing coach at an athletics school and resident…

Fayzulla Agzamov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

In 2001, authorities arrested Agzamov and charged him with “attempts to overthrow the constitutional order…

Tohir Djumanov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On August 6, 1999, authorities arrested Djumanov in Tashkent after accusing him of distributing Hizb ut-Tahrir literature.

Ravshan Kosimov was imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.

In 2008, security services arrested Kosimov, a soldier who studied on an exchange program at the U.S. military…

Avaz Tokhtakhodjaev was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On November 26, 1999, security service agents arrested Tokhtakhodjaev, an economist, from his home in Tashkent…

Umar Badalov is detained for his religious activity.

On March 4, 1999, authorities arrested Badalov, a migrant worker and resident of Tashkent and pious Muslim, in the wave of arrests…

Nematullo Ibragimov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On an unspecified date, authorities arrested Ibragimov, a resident of Namangan, after accusing him of being a “Wahhabi” due…

Muhammad Abdukarimovich Rashidov was imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

In 2018, authorities arrested Rashidov, a Tashkent resident, reportedly for…

Sanat Salimov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On an unspecified date, police from the Navoi Department of Internal Affairs Division of Terrorism and Extremism…

Jahongir Kamolov was imprisoned for an alleged religious affiliation.

On May 18, 2000, police arrested Kamolov in Tashkent for allegedly being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. He was reportedly…

Ibrohim Kholmatov was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

In 2000, authorities arrested Kholmatov and charged him with “attempts to overthrow the constitutional order” (Art.…

Alisher Muminov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On March 26, 2016, authorities arrested Muminov, a resident of Margilon, in Tashkent and charged him with “attempts to overthrow…

Alisher Kasymov is imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

On October 10, 2019, authorities arrested Kasymov for allegedly downloading “extremist sermons” and other…

Shakhzodjon Zokirov is imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

On October 8, 2019, authorities arrested Zokirov for allegedly downloading “extremist sermons” and other…

Ubaydulla Murtazoyev was imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

On September 5, 2019, authorities detained Murtazoyev for allegedly storing with the purpose of distributing…

Azimjon Abdusamatov was imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

Between August and October 2019, authorities originally arrested Abdusamatov alongside seven others for…

Bakhtiyor Tursunov is imprisoned for discussing his religion on social media.

On September 5, 2019, authorities detained Tursunov and charged him on various criminal statutes, including…

Iskandar Iskandarov was imprisoned for gathering to discuss his religion.

In January 2020, authorities reportedly arrested Iskandarov for meeting with others to talk about Islam. …

Akbar Absalov was imprisoned for gathering to discuss his religion.

In January 2020, authorities reportedly arrested Absalov for meeting with others to talk about Islam.  Prosecutors…

Murodjon Khayitov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

In 2009, authorities arrested Khayitov for peacefully exercising of his religious beliefs.

Later…

Farrukh Yuldashev was imprisoned for his religious activity.

In 2000, authorities arrested Yuldashev during waves of arrests of Muslims following the February 1999 Tashkent bombings.…

Muhamadjon Akhmadjonov was imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

On May 20, 2017, Akhmadjonov was sentenced to 13 years in prison for “resistance to a government…

Akbar Ikramov is imprisoned for his religious activity.

On April 17, 2000, the Margilon City Court sentenced Ikramov to eight years in prison on several criminal statutes,…

Miraziz Mirzakhmedov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

On June 5, 2000, the Tashkent Region Court sentenced Mirzakhmedov to 13 years in prison for “…

Ravshan Karimov was imprisoned for an alleged religious affiliation.

On May 22, 2000, the Tashkent City Court sentenced Karimov to 13 years in prison on various criminal statutes,…

Jamshidbek Iboydullaevich Atabekov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On March 30, 1998, the Jizzakh City Court convicted Atabekov of "illegal production, purchase, storage, and…

Shamsiddin Giyasov was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On January 4, 2002, the Tashkent City Court sentenced Giyasov to six years and six months in prison for “…

Rustam Nosirov was imprisoned in relation to his religious appearance.

On September 30, 1998, the Chinaz District Court sentenced Nosirov to two years in prison for "intentional infliction…

Zabikhullo Muminov was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

In 1999, authorities arrested Muminov following the aftermath of the Tashkent bombings. His family reported that police…

Ali al-Nimr was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.

In July 2012, authorities detained Al-Nimr, the nephew of prominent Shia cleric Nimr al-…

Dawood al-Marhoun was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.

On May 21, 2012, authorities arrested al-Marhoun, who was 17 years old at the time…

Abdullah al-Zaher was imprisoned for his religious identity and for protesting religious discrimination.

In March 2012, authorities detained al-Zaher, 15 years old at the time, for…

Aisha al-Muhajiri is detained for her religious activity.

In February 2021, police raided al-Muhajiri's home in Mecca and detained her for preaching and giving Qur'an lessons at her home.…

Mohammed al-Rabiah is imprisoned for his activism against state imposed religious systems.

On May 15, 2018, authorities arrested al-Rabiah amid a statewide crackdown on women's rights…

Salman al-Ouda is detained for his religious activity and leadership role.

In September 2017, police arrested al-Ouda, a sheikh and Islamic scholar, from his home amid a state-wide wave…

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…

Erkinjon Oripov was imprisoned in relation to his religious activity. 

On August 8, 2000, the Tashkent’s Shaykhontakhur District Court sentenced Oripov to nine years in prison for “…

Abror Akhmedov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On January 23, 2003, the Qashqadaryo Region Court sentenced Akhmedov to seven years in prison for “attempts…

Dilrukh Isakov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

On March 2, 2004, the Sabir Rakhimov District Court in Tashkent sentenced Isakov to six years in prison…

Mukhiddin Jalolov was imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

On an unspecified date, authorities arrested Jalolov amid mass arrests of Muslims following the …

Rakhmatjon Ernazarov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

On September 12, 2000, the Fergana City Court sentenced Ernazarov to nine years in…

Olim Mirzaev is imprisoned for his religious activity.

In 2001/2022, Mirzaev was imprisoned reportedly in relation to his religious beliefs.  The date of his arrest, charges, and…

Muhammadamin Abdurazzokov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity.

On June 19, 1999, the Fergana Region Court sentenced Abdurazzokov to 14 years in prison for “…

Akrom Kamolovich Zokirov is imprisoned for his religious identity and activity.

In 2000, the Margilon City Court sentenced Zokirov to 20 years in prison on unspecified charges.

In…

Otabek Madaminov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On November 5, 1999, the Shakhrikhan District Court in the Andijan region sentenced Madaminov to 12 years and six months in…

Abdulbosit Akhmajonov is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On June 11, 2017, the Fergana Region Court sentenced Akhmajonov to 15 years in prison for several criminal…

Mukhitdin Irgashev is imprisoned for his religious belief and activity. 

On April 1, 2015, officers arrested Irgashev, along with his son in Bukhara, charging them first with…

Sheikh Abduljabar Nasiru Kabara is imprisoned for blasphemy.

In July 2021, authorities arrested Kabara, a cleric, and charged him with blasphemy and incitement for his allegedly “defamatory…

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…

Sardorbek Irgashev was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

For several years prior to their arrest, Irgashev, his father, Mukhitdin Irgashev, and his brother, Otabek…

Otabek Irgashev was imprisoned for his religious belief and activity.

On April 1, 2015, officers arrested Irgashev and his father in Bukhara, charging them first with administrative…

Kadyr Yusupov was mistreated in prison for fighting for prisoner religious freedom rights and his religious activity. 

In or around December 2018, authorities arrested Yusupov, who…

Turnazar Boymatov was imprisoned for his religious activity.

On March 27, 2000, a Surkhandaryo Region Court sentenced Boymatov to nine years in prison for “attempts to overthrow the…

Mashrap Rabiev was imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

On May 20, 2003, a court in the Surkhandaryo region sentenced Rabiev to nine years for “attempts to…

Murod Muminov is imprisoned in relation to his religious beliefs and activity. 

On September 18, 2002, the Tashkent City Court sentenced Muminov to 11 years in prison for “attempts to…

Nomoz Normurodov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

On July 13, 2000, the Surkhandaryo Region Court sentenced Normurodov to 11 years in prison for “…

Bakhromjon Inogomov is imprisoned in relation to his religious belief and activity. 

On May 1, 2001, the Tashkent City District Court sentenced Inogomov to 11 years in prison for…

Shukhrat Usmanov was imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On May 21, 1999, the Tashkent Region Court sentenced Usmanov to 12 years in prison for “attempts to overthrow the…

Abdulkhomid Allaberdiev is imprisoned for his religious activity. 

On February 8, 2001, the Surkhandaryo Region Court sentenced Allaberdiev to 12 years in prison for “attempts to…