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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Denis Muryga
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Zarema Musaeva
  ImprisonedChechnyaArticle 159 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 years 9 months
• Alexei Musafirov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Bogdan Musikhin
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Alexander Mukhin
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Irina Navalnaia
  ImprisonedArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Svetlana Nazarova
  ImprisonedVologda OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Hovsep Nazlukhanyan
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 335 uk «lnr», Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Denis Narolsky
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Roman Nasryev
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Bogdan Nebylitsa
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Neverov
  ImprisonedMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Roman Nedostupa
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code21 years
• Oleg Nepein
  ImprisonedSaratov OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksander Nesterenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Veronika Netunaeva
  ImprisonedYaroslavl OblastArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alexander Neustroev
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Ivan Nechiporenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Aibulat Nigamatov
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 9 months
• Viktor Nikitin
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Sergei Nikitiuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Evgeny Nikiforov
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Angel Nikolaev
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years 10 months
• Makar Nikolaev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Nikolaeva Elena
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Kirill Nikulenkov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Nika Novak
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Gennadii Novitskii
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Nozdrinov
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 items g, d, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Alexei Nuriev
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Ruslan Nurushev
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Olga Ogarkova
  ImprisonedZabaykalsky KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Konstantin Ogoltsov
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Tatiana Omelchenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Artem Onoprienko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Nikolai Onuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Petr Opalnik
  ImprisonedNovgorod OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Andrei Oprysko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Orel
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Orlov
  ImprisonedVologda OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Yuri Orlov
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Igor Orlovskii
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Ruslan Orlovsky
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sodik Ortikov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code21 years 11 months
• Ibrahim Orujev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Ansar Osmanov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Rustem Osmanov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Turatbek Osmonkulov
  ImprisonedTyumen OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Artemy Ostanin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Ostapchuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 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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