Verified cases involving imprisonment or disappearance connected to religious practice, belief, worship, teaching, community leadership or peaceful freedom-of-conscience activity.
Complete prisoner directory: This religious-freedom page is a thematic cross-index, not the exhaustive prisoner list. See All Current & Former Political Prisoners, with regional directories for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao.
Relationship to the broader taxonomy: Religious/Freedom-of-Belief Prisoner is a specialized classification, not a separate identity. Each case is also marked as Current or Former according to custody status, and the same person may also appear in the broader Dissidents, Activists & Rights Defenders directory. Release or sentence-completion dates should be shown when verified.
- Christians and house-church members
- Tibetan Buddhists
- Uyghur Muslims
- Falun Gong practitioners
- Other documented freedom-of-belief cases
Charges, conduct, sentence, location, health and release status will be stated neutrally and sourced. Identity-ambiguous or privately supplied allegations remain under restricted review.
Published Profiles and Status Updates
- Ezra Jin Mingri (金明日): Release Status — released in July 2026; eight related Zion Church cases remain under monitoring.
Verified grouped record: Zion Church Eight — custody, charges, and delayed-trial status
All Published Religious-Freedom Records
New verified records published under this section will appear here automatically.