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religious persecution

systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or lack thereof
Class type of: persecution, religious discrimination Q301585

Facts

3 properties
Subclass of
persecution, religious discrimination[1][2]
Different from
ritual purification[4]
Has effect
2025–2026 Iranian protests[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en religious persecution ar اضطهاد ديني ar الإضطهاد الديني ar الاضطهاد الديني ar إضطهاد ديني cs náboženské pronásledování cs náboženská perzekuce da religiøs forfølgelse de religiöse Verfolgung el θρησκευτική δίωξη es persecucion religiosa es persecución religiosa fa آزار دینی fi uskonvaino fr persécution religieuse fr persécutions religieuses he רדיפה דתית hi साम्प्रदायिक उत्पीड़न hu vallásüldözés id Penindasan agama
🔖 Identifiers · 19
GND ID
4221524-9
OpenAlex ID
C515810507
BBC Things ID
72082fba-6ea2-431c-86bb-0bbadea6b0ba
Biblissima authority ID
Sobrado
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/religious-persecution
Freebase ID
/m/017tyz
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
religious-persecution
KBpedia ID
ReligiousPersecution
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
515810507
NL CR AUT ID
ph117342
National Library of Latvia ID
000075270
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX526241
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PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrtTw1td1TfJK
Provenio UUID
ada86b7d-330d-443a-a3d3-e05e0c2ba245
Quora topic ID
Religious-Persecution
SVKKL authority ID
h0007821-nabozenska-perzekuce
Topic's main category
Category:Religious persecution
YSO ID
8937
Zhihu topic ID
20039245

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 12
persecution of Christians, persecution of Jews, persecution of Muslims, Persecution of Bahá'ís, Anti-Shi'ism, Persecution of Zoroastrians, persecution of Buddhists, Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal +4 more
Examples 8
persecution of Uyghurs in China, Rohingya genocide, Waco Siege, haibutsu kishaku, persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman decline, Burning of convents in Spain (1931), Byeong-in Persecution
Subclass of 2
persecution, religious discrimination
← Field of work 2
Solomon ibn Verga, Ján Havlík
← Has effect 2
right-wing extremism, far-left politics
Different from 1
ritual purification
Has effect 1
2025–2026 Iranian protests
Topic's main category 1
Category:Religious persecution
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Religious persecution
← Has cause 1
2025–2026 Iranian protests
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Sobrado
    "Created claim: Biblissima authority ID: Q295045, Import ID Biblissima V3 (details)"
  2. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0007821-nabozenska-perzekuce
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: h0007821-nabozenska-perzekuce, batch #259494"
  3. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → ritual purification
    Subclass of → persecution, religious discrimination
    Has effect → 2025–2026 Iranian protests
    Topic's main category → Category:Religious persecution
    "Changed claim qualifiers: YSO ID: 8937, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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