ASIA & AUSTRALIA
Bangladesh: The Alarming State of Child Safety in Bangladesh
Nearly 16,000 Children Reported Missing in Seven Months – A Human Rights Report and Recommendations to the Government
Iran: Young Bahá’í arbitrarily imprisoned
Parsa Najafi, a member of Iran’s Bahá’í community who was 19 at the time of his arrest, was detained on 6 June 2026 during a search of his parents’ home in the Iranian city of Isfahan.
India: Five years in prison following false conversion allegations
The ISHR and the Evangelical news agency IDEA have named evangelical pastor Chhot Singh Dhurve and others convicted with him in India as the “Prisoners of the Month for September 2026”.
China: 84-year-old Falun Gong practitioner dies in custody
For 27 years, followers of Falun Gong, the meditation movement founded in China in 1992, have been relentlessly persecuted by the country’s communist dictatorship.
Lebanon: Undaunted Commitment to helping families in distress
“The situation here remains very unstable. Just when we think peace has finally returned, something happens that fuels tensions. It doesn’t look good. But we remain hopeful.”
Between Protection and Extradition
ISHR urges Kazakhstan to stop the extradition of Julia Emelianova and Mansur Movlaev. If returned to Russia, both activists face politically motivated imprisonment, torture and enforced disappearance.