Recognition by human rights organisations

Unlawfully imprisoned over freedom of religion

555 people

Of these, 1 whose name is not known — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.

The criteria and the procedure belong to the organisations named below; FACTUM reports their decisions with attribution and makes no assessment of its own.

This is not the same as being imprisoned today. Of the 555 people recognised, 306 are behind bars right now. And 1,849 of the 2,155 people currently imprisoned carry no recognition of this kind — see who is imprisoned right now.

Other recognition statuses: political prisoners (1,404) · unlawfully imprisoned over religion (555) · persecuted over religion (499) · persecuted on political grounds (133) · other statuses (27)

• Olga Silaeva
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Boris Simonenko
  At largeVladimir OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 7 months
• Vladimir Skachidub
  At large with restrictionsKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Sergei Skudaev
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Gennadiy Skutelets
  At largeKomi RepublicArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Smolnikov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Soloviev
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Sorokina
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alexander Stefanidin
  At largeUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Stupnikov
  At large with restrictionsKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Kanybek Suiunduk uulu
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Aslan Suleymanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Renat Suleymanov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Artur Tekilov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Anzor Tekilov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Yuri Temirbulatov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Valery Tibius
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vasily Tkachev
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Maria Troshina
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Dilmurat Umerov
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ildar Urazbakhtin
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Alexey Ukhov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Aramis Fazylov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Aidar Faizullin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Shamil Fataliyev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Ruslan Fatkullin
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ruslan Fattakhov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Aivar Habibullin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Rifat Habibullin
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Rafis Khalilov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Alexey Khamadeev
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Azat Khasanov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Vladimir Khokhlov
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 3 months
• Shamil Khusniyarov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Maxim Tsvetkov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Kirill Chekolaev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Cheprasov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Evgeni Cherepanov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ibrahim Shavkatov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Adam Shavkhalov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Ildar Shaykhutdinov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Ilgiz Shakurov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 9 months
• Valery Shalev
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Rais Shamsuddinov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Rinat Shamsutdinov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Tatiana Shamsheva
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Natalia Sharapova
  At large with restrictionsPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 11 months
• Alexandr Shudobaev
  At large with restrictionsOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Alexey Shcherbich
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Khoso Esmurzaev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years

Who does the recognising

Number of people on this page recognised by each organisation. Criteria and procedure belong to the organisations themselves; their sites are linked where the address is unambiguous.

• Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners296
• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners167
• Memorial Human Rights Centre89
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre2
• SOVA Research Centre1