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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• 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
• Colin Russell
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitalii Revin
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code24 years
• Dmitrii Regush
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• 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
• Ian Rogers
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• 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
• Paul Ruzycki
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maksim Rupchev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Anne Mie Ruer Jensen
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• 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
• Sini Saarela
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sabadash Aleksandr
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Savvin
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code1 year 1 month
• Svetlana Savelyeva
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Maxim Savenkov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Fevzi Sagandzhi
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code10 years 6 months
• Ildar Sadriev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Anton Saikhiev
  ImprisonedBuryatiaArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Sergei Salazkin
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Dmitrii Samatov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Samoilov
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Evgeniia Samokhina
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Artem Samsonov
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 132 part 4 item b, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Yuri Samsonov
  ImprisonedUdmurtiaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Igor Sapozhnikov
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months

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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