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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Alexander Plotnikov
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Akhmed Pogorov
  ImprisonedIngushetiaArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Ruben Pogosyan
  ImprisonedKareliaArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Nikolai Pogrebniak
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Ilia Podkamennyi
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Konstantin Podoshvelev
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Aleksey Pokazanyev
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Victor Pokusin
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Dmitry Polunin
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dariia Poliudova
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Ivan Poliakov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Ponomarev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code8 years 2 months
• Roman Ponomarenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Denis Popov
  ImprisonedYaroslavl OblastArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Elena Popova
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Vladislav Poruchikov
  ImprisonedBelgorod OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Prilepa Anatoliy
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Oleg Prikhodko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 1 month
• Dmitrii Prozorov
  ImprisonedKirov OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Dmitrii Prokopets
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Nikita Prosvirnin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Prokhorenko
  ImprisonedBryansk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Vladimir Puzanov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 8 months
• Dmitrii Pchelintsev
  ImprisonedPenza OblastArticle 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Andrey Pykhteev
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Evgenii Piatigorets
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Magomedgadzhi Rabadanov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Taras Radchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Vitalii Revin
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code24 years
• Redkin Vadim
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 111 part 3, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Konstantin Reznik
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Dmitrii Reivakh
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Dmitrii Remez
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Gulchehra Reshetnikova
  ImprisonedSaratov OblastArticle 208 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Daniil Reshetnichenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Abubakar Rizvanov
  ImprisonedDagestanArticle 205.1 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 3, Russian Criminal Code17 years 10 months
• Vakhtangi Rogava
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Alexei Rozhkov
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Andrei Romanenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Romantsov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Romaniuk
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 280.4 part 2 items b, v, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Anatolii Roslavtsev
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Nadezhda Rossinskaya (Nadin Geysler)
  ImprisonedBelgorod OblastArticle 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Stanislav Rudenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Timofey Rudenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maksim Rupchev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Andrei Rybak
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Ilmir Ryskulov
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 9 months
• Vitaly Ryazanov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Sabadash Aleksandr
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code

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