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)

Aziz Yusufov
At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
Sergey Yavushkin
At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
Boris Yagovitov
At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
Dim Yanbayev
At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years

One more person whose name is not known

These are defendants in group cases whose names OVD-Info does not know — they are counted in every figure in this section. This is not the same as anonymity: nobody asked for their names to be withheld.

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

Data for this section comes from the political persecution database of OVD-Info, licensed under CC BY 3.0.

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