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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Gennadii Osmak
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Ofitserov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Rostislav Okhrimenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Viktor Pavlenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasilii Pavlov
  ImprisonedBelgorod OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Dmitry Pavlyuchenko
  ImprisonedKareliaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Andrei Paley
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 105 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Vitalii Panchenko
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Georgii Paramoshin
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 150 part 4, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Parhomenko Evgeniy
  ImprisonedBryansk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Tamara Parshina
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Igor Paskar
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Dmitrii Pastashchuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Pashyan
  ImprisonedBelgorod OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Aleksander Pedasiuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Elena Penza
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Ivan Perepelitsa
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Miguel Hernán Pérez Orsi
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Valery Perov
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Anthony Perrette
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Petrauskas
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Svetlana Petriichuk
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 10 months
• Aleksei Petrov
  ImprisonedKamchatka KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Petrova
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Roman Petrovich
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Nikolai Petrovsky
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Gleb Petruk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Bogdan Pidluzhnyi
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Francesco Pisanu
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgenii Pinchuk (hieromonk Nikandr)
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Alexey Pichugin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 105 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Article 33 part 3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Roman Pichuzhin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• 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
• Dmitry Polunin
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Pohl
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, 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
• 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

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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