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)

• Evgeny Aksenov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Tatiana Alushkina
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ilkhom Aminjanov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Amosov
  At largeKareliaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nadezhda Anoikina
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Denis Antonov
  At largeMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Artur Arazov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Larisa Artamonova
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexei Arkhipov
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Lyubov Asatryan
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Nina Astvatsaturova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Evgeniya Akhrameeva
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Bazhenov
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Snezhana Bazhenova
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vladimir Baikalov
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Egor Baranov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Yuri Baranov
  At largeVologda OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Valentina Baranovskaya
  At largeKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Elena Barmakina
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Gaukhar Bektimirova
  At largeOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Maksim Beltikov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Eduard Belyaev
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Bespalov
  Not in RussiaIrkutsk OblastArticle 112 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Bogatov
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Anatoliy Boyko
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasily Bondarev
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Irina Bondareva
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Tatiana Bondarenko
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vyacheslav Boronos
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Tamara Bratseva
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Grigory Bubnov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vasiliy Burenescu
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Boris Burylov
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Egor Butakov
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Elizaveta Bychkova
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Vaag
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladimir Vasilyev
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexandr Vasichkin
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Rimma Vashchenko
  DeceasedStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Vergunov
  At largeKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Victoria Verkhoturova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Valery Vechkaev
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Vilitkevich
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Dmitry Vinogradov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Voykov
  At largeBelgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Marina Voitko
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Volosnikov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Nina Volokhonskaya
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Alexey Vorsin
  Not in RussiaKhabarovsk KraiArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vospitaniuk Aleksandr Sergeevich
  At largeKursk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years

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