Released

March 2025 Mahvash Sabet, a prisoner of conscience, has been repeatedly persecuted for her religious beliefs and activities. In August 2010, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison in August 2010. Her sentence was briefly reduced to 10 years in September 2010 before being reinstated by another appeals court in March 2011. On July…

Released Nguyen Bac Truyen (Nguyễn Bắc Truyển), a Vietnamese human rights defender and Hoa Hao Buddhist, was imprisoned in 2017 after being abducted by Vietnamese police. Truyen had provided free legal assistance to political prisoners’ families, victims of land seizures, and persecuted religious communities. In April 2018, he was sentenced to 11 years for “carrying…

Released Mubarak Bala is the President of the Nigerian Humanist Association. In April 2020 he was arrested, accused of being ‘provocative and annoying to Muslims’ on Facebook. He is currently being arbitrarily detained in Kano State, a region that allows for the operation of Sharia courts alongside secular courts, where riots and murder are not…

Released The APPG FoRB celebrates the release of Nour Fayez Ibrahim Girgis who was detained in Egypt since late 2021 under laws typically used against terror suspects and is facing allegations of blasphemy and support for foreign organizations. Girgis, a Christian man who worked for Miracle Pharmaceutical in Minya, was detained and questioned for his…

Released The APPG FoRB celebrates the release of Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo who had been detained in Egypt since late 2021 under laws typically used against terror suspects and is facing allegations of blasphemy and support for foreign organizations. Abdo, an asylum seeker from Yemen registered with the UNHRC, was interrogated about his television evangelism. Throughout…