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)

• Hamit Beshkempirov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Bitusov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sobirjon Burhoniddini
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Radik Valiakhmetov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Albert Valiullin
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Artur Valov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Vyacheslav Vankov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Nikolay Vasilyev
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Artem Vatrya
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Linar Vakhitov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Viktor Velikov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Mikhail Veselov
  ImprisonedVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ruslan Gabidullin
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Timur Gadiev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Servet Gaziev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Ural Galiev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Ilfat Galimov
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Renat Galimov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Shamil Galimov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Yuri Galka
  ImprisonedVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Rustem Galliamov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Behruz Ganiev
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Artem Gerasimov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Yuri Gerashchenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Anas Gimazetdinov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years 9 months
• Ilgiz Gimaletdinov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Marcel Gimaliev
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Anatoly Gorbunov
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alexei Gorokhov
  ImprisonedKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Gromov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 1 month
• Valerii Gurskii
  ImprisonedVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vadim Davletbaev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Ruzil Davletshin
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code18 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Davydenko
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Aram Danielyan
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Gamid Dataev
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Sergey Derzhipilsky
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Zurab Dzhabrailov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Muso (Khurshejon) Jalolov (Karimov)
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Aider Japparov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Gonhi Jahi
  ImprisonedTomsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Emil Dzhemadenov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years 6 months
• Azamat Dzhumataev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Dmitriev
  ImprisonedAdygeaArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Evgenii Dodolin
  ImprisonedTomsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Dodolina
  ImprisonedTomsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Domnin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code8 years 10 months
• Leonid Druzhinin
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Nurbek Duishebaev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Eliseev Alik
  ImprisonedAltai KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 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