Recognition by human rights organisations

Persecuted over freedom of religion

498 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 498 people recognised, 34 are behind bars right now. And 2,240 of the 2,274 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 (498) · persecuted on political grounds (133) · other statuses (27)

• 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
• Alexey Plekhov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Evgenii Plotnikov
  At largeMari ElArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Podolin
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Polozov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Poltoradnev
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Polyakov
  At largeOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anastasia Polyakova
  At largeOmsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladimir Ponomarenko
  At largeKabardino-BalkariaArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Ponomarenko
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 5 months
• Yulia Popkova
  At largeTula OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vitaly Popov
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Elena Popova
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Rimma Popova
  At largeKarachay-CherkessiaArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Alexander Popras
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Portnyagina
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Postnikov
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 2 months
• Sergey Potylitsyn
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Prikhodko
  Not in RussiaOryol OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Protasov
  At largeChuvashiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Anastasia Prianikova
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Puida
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Nina Purge
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Angela Putivskaya
  At largeTula OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Ravnushkin Dmitrii Vasilevich
  At largeKareliaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Valerie Ryman
  At largeKostroma OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Rayman
  At largeKostroma OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Alexander Rakovsky
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2 applied with Article 35 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Viktor Revyakin
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vasiliy Reznichenko
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Elena Reino-Chernyshova
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Evgeny Reshetnikov
  At largeLipetsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Romanov
  At largeChukotka Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Romanova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Romashov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 7 months
• Marina Roslova
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Rubanov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Rumyantseva
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Svetlana Ryzhkova
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Leonid Rysikov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 9 months
• Karina Sahakyan
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Mansur Sadykov
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Sazhin
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Andrey Sazonov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Saubian Salkin
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Samsonov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Sandu
  Not in RussiaOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Zakhar Sarapulov
  At largeIrkutsk OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code1 year

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 Prisoners250
• Memorial Human Rights Centre123
• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners117
• SOVA Center7
• OVD-Info2

The Persecution section uses data from OVD-Info (CC BY 3.0). Methodology