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Of these, 1 who asked that their name not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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)

• Svetlana Prokopyeva
  At largePskov OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Rezontova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Rekst
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Rugevich
  Not in RussiaSverdlovsk OblastArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anastasia Rybachenko
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Sadovin
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergey Sandin
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anastasia Safonova
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 9 months
• Andrey Svistunov
  At largeMari ElArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Semyon
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 280.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Nikolai Serebrennikov
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Semyon Simonov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 315 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Stenin
  At largeAstrakhan OblastArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ludmila Stech
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Boris Stomakhin
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Polina Strongina
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Sukhanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Pavel Tolmachev
  At largeMari ElArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Tregubov
  Not in RussiaNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilmi Umerov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 280.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Alexander Fedulov
  Not in RussiaVladimir OblastArticle 282.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Kharlamova
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Khovansky
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Khrenov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Khristoforov
  DeceasedArkhangelsk OblastArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Evgeny Khudyakov
  DeceasedChechnyaArticle 105 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Yulia Tsvetkova
  Not in RussiaKhabarovsk KraiArticle 242 part 3 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Tsibukovsky
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 11 months
• Valentina Cherevatenko
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 330.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Yun
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Karim Yamadayev
  At largeTatarstanArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Yashin
  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

The Persecution section uses data from OVD-Info (CC BY 3.0). Methodology