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)

• Olga Medvedeva
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Menchikova
  At largeKarachay-CherkessiaArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Ekaterina Menkova
  At largeKalmykiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Nikolay Merinov
  Not in RussiaIrkutsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Denis Merkulov
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Metzger
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Valerii Minsafin
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Mirgorodskaya
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Irina Mikhailenko
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Mikhailov
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Mikhailova
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Moiseenko
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Margarita Moiseenko
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Adam Molov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Svetlana Monis
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Tatiana Morlang
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Moskalev
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Timur Munasypov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Seyran Mustafayev
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergey Mysin
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Natalia Mysina
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladimir Myakushin
  At largeTatarstanArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 1 month
• Elena Nesterova
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Ivan Nikitin
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Georgy Nikulin
  At large with restrictionsMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Sergey Novoselov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Idris Nurjaev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Aleksei Ovchar
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Lyubov Ovchinnikova
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Svetlana Ogoreva
  At largeKarachay-CherkessiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Grigorii Ozhiganov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Oleynik
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Ilya Olenin
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Galiya Olkhova
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ekaterina Olshevskaya
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitaliy Omelchenko
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrzej Onyszczuk
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Zareta Ortanova
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vyacheslav Osipov
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Andrey Okhapkin
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Panyuta
  At large with restrictionsPrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Galina Parkova
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Georgy Parfentiev
  DeceasedStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Parfenteva Tatiana Ivanovna
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasilina Penskaia
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Natalia Perekatiy
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Perminov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Valery Petrenko
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Petrov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 5 months
• Konstantin Petrov
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 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