Recognition by human rights organisations

Persecuted on political grounds

133 people

Of these, 1 who asked that their name not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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 133 people recognised, 7 are behind bars right now. And 2,148 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)

• Sergei Veselov
  ImprisonedIvanovo OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Denis Zhuravlev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Valerii Kniazev
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Igor Nagavkin
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 158 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 11 months
• Ilona Nagornova
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Indus Talipov
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Aleksei Fedorov
  ImprisonedKemerovo OblastArticle 222.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Artem Bystrov
  Under house arrestNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 115 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Ashurkov
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Vishnevsky
  Location unknownZabaykalsky KraiArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vyacheslav Gimadi
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 282.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Irina Kalmykova
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Platonova
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Sergey Abramov
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolay Avdyushenkov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Georgy Alburov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Bogdan Andreev
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 222.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Yana Antonova
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 284.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Baronova
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Boris Batyi
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 146 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ravil Bashirov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Benyash
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Anna Biryukova
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Bobkov
  At largeSamara OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Boiko
  Not in RussiaNovosibirsk OblastArticle 282.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Boykov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Borovikov
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Rasim Bulgakov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vladimir Burmay
  Not in RussiaStavropol KraiArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Bychkov
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Danila Vasiliev
  At largePerm KraiArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Evgeny Voluzhev
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Voropaeva
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Suren Gazarian
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 119 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Yulia Galyamina
  At largeMoscowArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Gembaruk
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 116 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Anton Goncharov
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena (Alena) Goryacheva
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Gryaznov
  At largeVologda OblastArticle 307 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Yaroslava Gumennaia
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 148 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Ilya Danilov
  Not in RussiaLipetsk OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Dedkov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Dmitriev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Dolmatov
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 212 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Eugene Donets
  At largeMoscow
• Yulian Zagitov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 213 part 1 item b, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Olga Zaletskaya
  At largeKareliaArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Andrei Zayakin
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Olga Zelenina
  At largePenza OblastArticle 188 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Zentsov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code

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 Prisoners52
• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners41
• Memorial Human Rights Centre40