Recognition by human rights organisations

Recognised as political prisoners

1,404 people

Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.

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 1,404 people recognised, 872 are behind bars right now. And 1,283 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)

• Christina Lyubashenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Arkadii Liubchenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Denis Lialka
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Dmitrii Lialiaev
  ImprisonedSaratov OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 2 months
• Dmitrii Liamin
  ImprisonedIvanovo OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Salekh Magamadov
  ImprisonedChechnyaArticle 208 part 2 applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Timur Magomedov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Sergey Madiudin
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Evgenia Maiboroda
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Vladislav Mayer
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Roman Mayorov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Radik Makaev
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Vladimir Makarenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Yurii Makarenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 8 months
• Aleksandr Maksymchuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Maxim Makushin
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Aitugan Malabaev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vladimir Malina
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code25 years
• Nikolai Malkerov
  ImprisonedKostroma OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Aleksandr Maltapar
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexandr Malyshev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code26 years
• Nikita Malsagov
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years 6 months
• Alexey Malarevsky
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Sergei Mamaev
  ImprisonedMari ElArticle 282.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Rafael Mamedov
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Dmitrii Marsov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Mykola Martyniuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Marchenko
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 226.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Eldar Marchenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Roman Maryan
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Alexander Matkheev
  ImprisonedKemerovo OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code9 years 10 months
• Azamjon Makhmudov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code19 years 11 months
• Maria Makhmutova
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 7 months
• Rustam Mevlyutov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Filipp Medvedev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 11 months
• José Arón Medina Aranda
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 359 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Nariman Mezhmedinov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Leonid Melekhin
  ImprisonedPerm KraiArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilkin Melikov
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Evgeniy Melikhov
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Grigorii Melkoniants
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vasily Melnikov
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Egor Melnikov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 281 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Dmitry Melnichuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Ablyamet Memetshayev
  ImprisonedArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Arsen Memetshaev
  ImprisonedArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Artur Memetshayev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Vladlen Menshikov
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Olga Menshikh
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Velimor Merkulov
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 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.

• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners1,066
• Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners208
• Memorial Human Rights Centre125
• SOVA Research Centre4
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre1