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)

• Anatoly Sarychev
  At largeAltai KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Sergei Sachnev
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ulita Sachneva
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Tatiana Svoboda
  At large with restrictionsKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Artur Severinchik
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Svetlana Sedova
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Rustam Seidkuliev
  Not in RussiaSaratov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 4 months
• Seytumer Seytumerov
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Semenov
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Vera Semicheva
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Senin
  At largeTuvaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Georgiy Senotrusov
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Larisa Serdtseva
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Pavel Sidorenko
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Irina Sidorova
  DeceasedKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Skrynnikov
  At largeOryol OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Smaglo
  At largeKabardino-BalkariaArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Smelov
  At largeKareliaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nina Smirnova
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Mikhail Solntsev
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Oksana Solntseva
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergey Soloviev
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Spivak
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Matrona Spyriadi
  At largeKhakassiaArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Evgeny Spirin
  At largeIvanovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Spirichev
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Alexei Stepanov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Nikolay Stepanov
  At largeVologda OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Valentina Stepkina
  At largeTatarstan
• Andrey Suvorkov
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Evgeny Suvorkov
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Alexander Suvorov
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Suvorov
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Valentina Suvorova
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Shamil Sultanov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitaly Sukhov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Sushilnikov
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Anastasia Sycheva
  At largeJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Andrei Tabakov
  Not in RussiaUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Aivaz Tagiyev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Anastasia Terentyeva
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 171 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Teterin
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Denis Timoshin
  At largePenza OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vladimir Timoshkin
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Tishchenko
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Danila Tkachenko
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 213 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Tokarev
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Tolstonozhenko
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ekaterina Treguba
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 4 months
• Igor Trifonov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months

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