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)

• Dmitrii Zagulin
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Tatiana Zagulina
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Elena Zaishchuk
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Zalipaev
  At largeKabardino-BalkariaArticle 280 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan Zaliaev
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 150 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Svetlana Zaliaeva
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 150 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Zelensky
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Viktor Zimovsky
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Irina Zinina
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Liudmila Zinina
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vera Zolotova
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Evgeny Zyablov
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Airat Ibragimov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Igor Ivashin
  At largeSakha RepublicArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vitalii Ilinykh
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Yunona Ilyasova
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Inozemtsev
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexander Kabanov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Yulia Kaganovich
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexander Kazakov
  At largeTuvaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Kazakova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Eugeniy Kairyak
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 10 months
• Stanislav Kalinichenko
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Kalyamin
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Irina Kamshilova
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Inna Kardakova
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ilham Karimov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Maya Karpushkina
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Farhad Kasimov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Ludwiga Katanayeva
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 4 months
• Kamil Kerimkhanov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Artem Kim
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Sergey Kirilyuk
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Igor Kletkin
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Kobelev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Igor Kobotov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 4 months
• Nikolay Kovadnev
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Naila Kogay
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Hasan Kogut
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Kozak Evgenii Aleksandrovich
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Kozlitin
  At largeSakhalin OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vladislav Kolbanov
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Vladimir Kolesnikov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Kolotinsky
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Sergey Komissarov
  At largePskov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Mykola Kononenko
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Nadezhda Konkova
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Konshin
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Korobeinikov
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 3 months
• Nadezhda Korobochko
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 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