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Recognition by human rights organisations

Other recognition statuses

27 people

Three statuses that human rights organisations use rarely. They share one page on purpose: a page built around one or four people would be exactly the thin content this section guards against. The criteria belong to the organisations named under each group; FACTUM reports their decisions with attribution.

None of this is the same as being imprisoned today — 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)

Recognised as prisoners of conscience

22 people

Recognised by: Amnesty International (21) · Memorial Human Rights Centre (1)

Recognised as eco-prisoners

4 people

Recognised by: Ekouznik (4)

Recognised as persecuted for defending nature

1 people

Recognised by: Ekouznik (1)

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

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