Recognition by human rights organisations

Persecuted over freedom of religion

499 people

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 499 people recognised, 37 are behind bars right now. And 2,118 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)

• Alam Aliyev
  ImprisonedJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Vladimir Atryakhin
  ImprisonedMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Afanasiev
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Baranovskiy
  ImprisonedKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Dmitry Barmakin
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Alexey Berchuk
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Vladimir Bukin
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Mikhail Burkov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Sergei Verkhoturov
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Maxim Derendyaev
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Gevorg Yeritsyan
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Sergei Ermilov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Vladimir Ermolaev
  ImprisonedZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Timofey Zhukov
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Suhrob Ironov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Sergei Kardakov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Valerii Kriger
  ImprisonedJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 9 months
• Alexander Kutin
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Igor Lonchakov
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Dmitry Malevanyi
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 10 months
• Igor Mamalimov
  ImprisonedZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Elena Nikulina
  ImprisonedMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Akmalchon Numonchonov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Anatolii Odintsov
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Anton Olshevsky
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Olga Opaleva
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Denis Peresunko
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Eduard Petrushin
  ImprisonedKaluga OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Alexander Putintsev
  ImprisonedZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Yuri Redozubov
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Adam Svarichevsky
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Valery Slaschev
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Dmitrii Terebilov
  ImprisonedKostroma OblastArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Alexei Trofimov
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Garegin Khachaturian
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Sergey Shulyarenko
  ImprisonedJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 9 months
• Sergey Yuferov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Alexander Kopylets
  Under house arrestOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Stepan Adamov
  Location unknownMoscow OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Baikalov
  Location unknownKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pyotr Bozykov
  Location unknownKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Volodymyr Boyko
  Location unknownMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Bochko
  Location unknownKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Verigin
  Location unknownPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Violetta Verigina
  Location unknownPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Vigul
  Location unknownKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Volkov
  Location unknownChukotka Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Gaitur
  Location unknownKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Guild
  Location unknownRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Georgiy Godizov
  Location unknownAdygeaArticle 282.2 part 1, 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 Prisoners252
• Memorial Human Rights Centre120
• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners118
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre7
• OVD-Info2