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)

• Viktor Trofimov
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Turik
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Evgeny Udintsev
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Raisa Usanova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vitaly Ushakov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Agakerim Fataliyev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Evgeniy Fedin
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Tatyana Feruleva
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Fefilov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Sergei Filatov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Pyotr Filiznov
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladimir Filippov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Tsagan Khalgaeva
  At largeKalmykiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Maxim Khalturin
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Khoren Khachikian
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Irina Khvostova
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Valerii Khmil
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Shamil Khusnitdinov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 10 months
• Denis Tsarev
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Tsarev
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Elena Zorn
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anton Chermnykh
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Elena Chernykh
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergei Chechulin
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Elena Chechulina
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Aisia Shabanov
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Artem Shabliy
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Anatoly Shalyapin
  At largeBelgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Shamov
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Shayapov
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Alexander Shevchuk
  At largeMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Viola Shepel
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 3 months
• Radion Shitov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Valery Sheetz
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Svetlana Shishina
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Schollner
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Gennady Shpakovsky
  At largePskov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Alexey Shubnikov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Shulgina
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Shuliuk
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Alexander Shutov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Lyudmila Shut
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Lyudmila Shchekoldina
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 1 month
• Andrey Shchepin
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Aidar Yulmetyev
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 9 months
• Elena Yurenkova
  At largeSamara OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Eugene Yakku
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Galina Yatsik
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Yelena Yatsyk
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months

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