
War Resisters' International's database of prisoners for peace and conscientious objectors is part of the Right to Refuse to Kill programme. It keeps track of known prisoners for peace and conscientious objectors, and allows supporters to access information on conscientious objectors. It is also linked to War Resisters' International's co-alert system.
Below is a list of activists currently in prison, followed by the latest additions to the database. Alternatively, you can search the activist database or the detention database.
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 36 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 27 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 36 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 36 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 18 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 36 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Kosh
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 30 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Imprisoned for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I), awaiting trial.
Nubarashen Prison
Yerevan
Armenia
Jehovah's Witness CO. Sentenced to 24 months for refusing to perform military service (article 327, para I)
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Sawa
Eritrea
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service. Imprisoned some time in 2007 - the exact date is not known.
Meitir
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Meitir
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service.
Meitir
Jehovah's Witness. Imprisoned for conscientious objection to military service. Detained some time in March 2009.
Suomenlinna C 86
00190 Helsinki
Total objector. Sentenced for refusing military and substitute service.
On 2 November, 2000 Irom Sharmila Chanu, a Manipuri poet decided to go on a hunger strike after the Indian Army massacred ten civilians in Malom, Manipur. On 6 November 2000 she was arrested by the police and charged with attempt to commit suicide under section 307 of the Indian Penal Code.
On 21 November 2000 a plastic tube was inserted into her nose and liquid nutrient was inserted into her body. She is being force-fed and has been surviving on this liquid diet and in solitary confinement as a high security prisoner for the last nearly ten years. She is routinely released every year only to be re-arrested again.
P.O. Box 99, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, 480-700
Conscientious objector. Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for refusing military service.
837, P.O Box 165, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 153-600
Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for refusing military service.
837, P.O Box 164, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 153-600
Conscientious objector. Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for refusing military service.
Yeoju Prison
Box 30
P. O. Yeojuucheguk Yeoju-eup,
Yeoju-gun Gyeonggi-do,
Korea,
469-885
Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for conscientious objection to military service
837, P.O Box 165, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 153-600
Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for refusing military service.
P.O. Box 48, Suseong-gu, Daeju, South Korea, 706-600
Conscientious objector. Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for refusing military service.
Arrested on 27 November 2011, presumably for his conscientious objection.
Turkmenistan
746222 Lebap vilayet
Seydi
uchr. LB-K/12
Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector. Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for refusing military service.
Turkmenistan
746222 Lebap vilayet
Seydi
uchr. LB-K/12
Jehovah's Witness conscientious objector. Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for refusing military service.
POB 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808
USA
22 years for convictions resulting from providing humanitarian and financial aid to Iraqis in violation of U.S. sanctions, February 2005
5701 8th St. - Camp Parks, Dublin, WA 98198
Part of Disarm Now Plowshares group convicted of felony damage to government property, conspiracy and trespass for cutting the fence and entering the nuclear weapons storage area at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in November 2009. Sentenced to 15 months in prison.
830 Sabalu Road, Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027
Alleged to have leaked military video and documents showing evidence of US war crimes.
P.O. Box 13900, Seattle, WA 98198
Part of Disarm Now Plowshares group convicted of felony damage to government property, conspiracy and trespass for cutting the fence and entering the nuclear weapons storage area at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in November 2009. Sentenced to 15 months in prison.
Drawer C, 625 East King St, Lancaster, PA 17602-3199
Arrested at military recruiting office 1 August 2011, awaiting trial
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