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)

• Alexander Korolev
  At largeMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Alexander Korol
  At largeVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Korolchuk
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Lyubov Kocherova
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Vladimir Kochnev
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Natalia Krieger
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Arsen Kubedinov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexander Kuznetsov
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergei Kuznetsov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Maria Kuznetsova
  At largeYaroslavl OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Daria Kuzo
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vladlena Kukavitsa
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Sergey Kulakov
  At largeSakhalin OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Tatiana Kulakova
  At largeSakhalin OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vladimir Kulyasov
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vadim Kutsenko
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Kuchkov
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Gourami Labadze
  At largeTula OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Said Latifov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergey Ledenev
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Andrey Ledyaikin
  At largeTomsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 2 months
• Pavel Lekontsev
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anton Lemeshev
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Mykola Leshchenko
  At largeKareliaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Eun Sung Lee
  DeceasedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Loginov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Yuri Loginsky
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Logunov
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 3, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexey Loskutov
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Anna Lokhvitskaya
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Irina Lokhvitskaya
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Lokhvitskii Artur Sergeevich
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Anatolii Lyamo
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Mavrin
  At largeSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Andrey Magliv
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Andrei Maksimovich
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ildar Maksinyaev
  At largeMordoviaArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Liya Maltseva
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Sergey Malyanov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Svetlana Malyanova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Mamalimov
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Kaleria Mamykina
  DeceasedArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Manushakyan
  DeceasedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Markin
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Maslov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Matveev
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anna Matveeva
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Matrashov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Nikolay Makhalichev
  Not in RussiaKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Valentina Makhmadagaeva
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, 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