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)

• Tagir Akhtakhanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Sergey Baghyan
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alevtina Bagratyan
  At largeKursk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Artem Bagratyan
  At largeKursk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergei Baev
  At largeVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Bazhenov Konstantin Viktorovich
  Not in RussiaSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Semyon Baibak
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Valerii Bailo
  DeceasedKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vilyur Baisuakov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vladimir Balabkin
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Inyal Balakadashev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Albert Batchayev
  At largeKarachay-CherkessiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Viktor Bachurin
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anton Bashabaev
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Belosludtsev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Munirkhon Boboyev
  At largeArticle 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Alexander Bondarchuk
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Bochkariov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 1 month
• Leysan Bochkaryova
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergey Britvin
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Irina Buglak
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexey Budenchuk
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Gennadii Buslov
  At largeMoscowArticle 284.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Yuri Byche
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Vavilov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Rustem Vaitov
  At largeOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Aleksei Vasiliev
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mahmud Velitov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Valentina Vladimirova
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Rustam Gabdullin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Rustam Galimkhanov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Tatiana Galkevich
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Aidar Garifianov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Gataullin Ramil Irshatovich
  At largeTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Rishat Gataullin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Dzhemil Gafarov
  DeceasedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Gennady German
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Rishat Girfanov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Roman Gridasov
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Evgenii Grinenko
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Georgii Guev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vagid Guseykhanov
  At large with restrictionsMoscowArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Yusuf Huseykhanov
  At large with restrictionsMoscowArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Ziiavdin Dapaev
  At largeDagestanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Anton Dergalev
  At largeDagestanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Eugene Deshko
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Akhmet Dzhumaev
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Marat Dindarov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Alexander Dolganov
  At large with restrictionsSamara OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Konstantin Dorokhin
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months

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