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Of these, 1 who asked that their name not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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, 6 are behind bars right now. And 2,268 of the 2,274 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 (498) · persecuted on political grounds (133) · other statuses (27)

• Vladimir Ionov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Iosilevich
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 119 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 8 months
• Gleb Kalinychev
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Alexey Kamkin
  At largeIrkutsk OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• David Kasatkin
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Mikhail Klyuzhev
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Kolesov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 116 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Komarova
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Konobeevskikh
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 207 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Victor Korb
  Not in RussiaOmsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexandra Kornilova
  At largeKareliaArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Philip Kostenko
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Kokhtareva
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 3 months
• Martin Kochesoko (Kochesokov)
  Not in RussiaKabardino-BalkariaArticle 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anastasia Kravchuk
  At largeKareliaArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Dmitry Krasichkov
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 159.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Krivonosov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 116 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgenii Kruglov
  At largeOmsk OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Kuznetsov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Kurakin
  At largeMoscow OblastArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Andrei Kutuzov
  At largeTyumen OblastArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Dmitrii Labinskii
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code23 years
• Vitaly Leonov
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Artem Loskutov
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 228.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Lutovinova
  At largeMoscow OblastArticle 330 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Makurin
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Daniil Malyshkin
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vadim Mamedov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Marochkin
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Gleb Maryasov
  At largeMoscowArticle 267 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 months
• Aigul Makhmutova
  At largeMoscowArticle 130 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Oleg Melnikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Egor Metlin
  At largeTambov OblastArticle 282.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Andey Milyuk
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Denis Mikhailenko
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 222.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Olga Mikhailova
  Not in RussiaVladimir OblastArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Molotov
  At largeVologda OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Yulia Navalnaya
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Nagavkin
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 158 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 11 months
• Dmitry Nadein
  At largeIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Nizovtsev
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code
• Pyotr Ofitserov
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 160 part 4 applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Oleg Pankov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Pevchikh
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Pelevina (Studenova)
  At largeMoscow
• Andrey Pesotsky
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Petrov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Pleskachev
  At largeOrenburg Oblast
• Igor Popov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Porokhovoy
  DeceasedSaint 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

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