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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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, 923 are behind bars right now. And 1,351 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)

• Nikita Malsagov
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years 6 months
• Igor Maltsev
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 8 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
• 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
• 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
• Egor Melnikov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 281 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Dmitry Melnichuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Oleg Melnichuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• 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
• Alexander Merochenets
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Oleg Mizhgorodskyy
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Alexandr Mineyev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexey Minyailo
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 212 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Mahamadyusuf Mirzaalimov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code19 years 11 months
• Yulia Mirzalieva
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Mirkulov
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Sergei Mironov
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Oleg Miruk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Dmitry Mikheev
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code17 years 9 months
• Eugene Mishchenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Aleksei Mozharov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years 6 months
• Igor Mozgo
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Roman Mokryak
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Monakhov
  ImprisonedIvanovo OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Andrey Morozov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Stanislav Moskvitin
  ImprisonedOmsk OblastArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Iuliia Mosiazh
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Timofey Mokhnenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dilmurod Muidinov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code19 years 11 months
• Igor Muliar
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Mikhail Mungalov
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 281 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 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 Prisoners207
• Memorial Human Rights Centre126
• SOVA Center5

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