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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Karina Tsurkan
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Sergei Tsigipa
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Nikolay Tsymbaliuk
  ImprisonedAltai KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuriy Tsyupak
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Tchaikovsky
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Chebanov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Sergey Chebukin
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years 6 months
• Vadim Cheldiev
  ImprisonedNorth Ossetia–AlaniaArticle 207.1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Eduard Cherevan
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Andrey Chernov
  ImprisonedPenza OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Alexey Chernysh
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Olga Cherniavskaia
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Iaroslav Cherniak
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Maxim Chishkovsky
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Alexei Chokan
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Giorgi Chubetidze
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 359 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilya Chugaev
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Gennadii Chumachenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Chunosov
  ImprisonedAmur OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Nikolai Chuprina
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Andrei Shabanov
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ruslan Shadiev
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Shadrin Ivan
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilya Shakursky
  ImprisonedPenza OblastArticle 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Alexander Shalin
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Dmitrii Shanaev
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Oleg Shapovalenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Eduard Sharlot
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Mihail Sharygin (Nametkin)
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Nikolai Shakhrai
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Shevchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Stanislav Shevchenko
  ImprisonedAdygeaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Mikhail Shevchuk
  ImprisonedMordoviaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Sheiko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Alexander Shestun
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Yaroslav Shirshikov
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 128.1 part 5, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Lev Shlosberg
  ImprisonedPskov OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Schmidt
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Evgeny Shogin
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Andrei Sholik
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Robert Shonov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Vladyslav Shpak
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code21 years
• Roman Shport
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Andrei Shpringer
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergey Shtyrov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Alexander Shulga
  ImprisonedBryansk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Scheglov Aleksandr
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 280.4 part 3, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ivan Shcherbakov
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Maxim Shchetinkin
  ImprisonedKhakassiaArticle 207.3 part 2 items v, d, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Alexey Shchus
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 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 Prisoners208
• Memorial Human Rights Centre125
• SOVA Research Centre4
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre1