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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Tulskaya Lyudmila
  ImprisonedSaratov OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Arseniy Turbin
  ImprisonedOryol OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Nikita Turlaev
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Nikita Tushkanov
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Oleg Tyshkul
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Dmitrii Tiazhelykh
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikita Uvarov
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Sergei Udaltsov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Danis Uzianbaev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Saniia Uzianbaeva
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 5 months
• Ilya Ukrainsky
  ImprisonedStavropol KraiArticle 275.1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Ulukshonov
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 208 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 years 8 months
• Shafkat Ulmasbaev
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Aider Umerov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ustenko Aleksandr
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Turan Ustiugov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.3 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Alexei Ustiuzhin
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Nadezhda Ukhova
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Nikolai Farafonov
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 128.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ekaterina Fatianova
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Dmitry Fedchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Galina Filchenko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilya Florinsky
  ImprisonedOryol OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ivan Fokin
  ImprisonedBelgorod OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Ekaterina Fomenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Sergei Fomov
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Saveliy Frolov
  ImprisonedNorth Ossetia–AlaniaArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergei Furgal
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 105 part 2, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Ivan Furleta
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Stephen James Hubbard
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 359 part 3, Russian Criminal Code6 years 10 months
• Mansur Khadzhiev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Khaitbaev
  ImprisonedVoronezh OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sayfilla Hakimov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code18 years 11 months
• Igor Khalilov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Lenur Khalilov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Maksim Kharitonov
  ImprisonedKurgan OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Aleksandr Kharlamov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vadim Kharchenko
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 128.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Wished to remain anonymous
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuriy Khayuk
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Vladimir Khvan
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Alberto Enrique Giraldo Saray
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 items b, g, Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Daniel Kholodny
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Ilia Kholopov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Evgenii Khomenko
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Valentin Khoroshayev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years 3 months
• Sergei Khripko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Svetlana Khustik
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 items g, d, Russian Criminal Code
• Irakli Khufenia
  ImprisonedNorth Ossetia–AlaniaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Piotr Tsarevsky
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, 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