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)

• Svetlana Vyrezkova
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Vyushin
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Elena Gadrshina
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Anastasia Gaitur
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Lyubov Galaktionova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Lyubov Galitsyna
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Sergei Galiamin
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Ganin
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Olga Ganusha
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Savely Gargalyk
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Namik Gasanbekov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anatoly Gezik
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 156, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Irina Gezik
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 156, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Yuri Geraskov
  DeceasedKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Julia Globa
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Evgeny Godunov
  At largeTula OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Dmitrii Golik
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Eugene Golik
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Krystyna Golik
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Gordeev
  At largeKareliaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Violetta Grudina
  Not in RussiaMurmansk OblastArticle 207.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Gubin
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Konstantin Guzev
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Anastasia Guzeva
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Izolda Guseva
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Kirill Gushchin
  At largeKabardino-BalkariaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Svetlana Gushchina
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Dvurechenskii
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ilya Degtyarenko
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Yuri Dementiev
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Galina Dergacheva
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Aksana Dominova
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Dorofeev
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Svetlana Dubovkina
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anastasia Dyldina
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dinara Dyusekeeva
  At largeOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Igor Egozarian
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Egorov
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Evgeny Yelin
  At largeSakhalin OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Alexei Eliseev
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Erkin
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Valentina Ermilova
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Ershov
  At largeTomsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ilia Ershov
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Zhanna Zhavoronkova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Svetlana Zharkova
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Olga Zhelavskaya
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Nikolay Zhugin
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Tatiana Zhuk
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Maxim Zavrazhnov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 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