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)

• Kristina Gruzdeva
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ekaterina Demidova
  Location unknownOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Eremeev
  Location unknownNovosibirsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anna Yermak
  Location unknownKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Igor Zhukov
  Location unknownOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexandra Zakharova
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Zotov
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Airat Ibragimov
  Location unknownBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Amirkhan Karimzhanov
  Location unknownOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Alibek Kartaiganov
  Location unknownPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Eva Katanaeva
  Location unknownPrimorsky Krai
• Ainur Klysov
  Location unknownBashkortostanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Konyukhov
  Location unknownPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Kopytov
  Location unknownKaliningrad OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Kostenko
  Location unknownOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Kochneva
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Valentina Kugukova
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Leontyev
  Location unknownKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Loshkarev
  Location unknownChukotka Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitaly Maximov
  Location unknownOryol OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Tadevos Manoukian
  Location unknownOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Markov
  Location unknownKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Medenkov
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Mironchik
  Location unknownMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Ostapenko
  Location unknownKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Ponomareva
  Location unknownKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Myasut Rafikov
  Location unknownUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Valery Rubtsov
  Location unknownPerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• S I
  Location unknownPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Victor Sagin
  Location unknownKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolay Salmanov
  Location unknownKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Svetonosov
  Location unknownKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergiy Semenyuk
  Location unknownKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitaliy Slobodeniuk
  Location unknownKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Eugenia Slobodeniuk
  Location unknownKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Eduard Smirnov
  Location unknownNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Zinaida Soldatova
  Location unknownTatarstan
• Denis Statsenko
  Location unknownBashkortostanArticle 205.5 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Fateyev
  Location unknownTomsk OblastArticle 282.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Stanislav Fokin
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Marina Fokina
  Location unknownSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Khabarov
  Location unknownPskov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 4 months
• Fail Shangareev
  Location unknownOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Shkolina
  Location unknownArkhangelsk OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Yumashev
  Location unknownChukotka Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Talyat Abdurakhmanov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Galina Abrosimova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Agadjanov
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Alexander Akopov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Arkadya Hakobyan
  At largeKabardino-BalkariaArticle 282 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