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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Ruslan Kozmenko
  Location unknownArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Vladimir Korsunov
  Location unknownOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Stanislav Kotuma
  Location unknownArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Alena Krylova
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Kuznetsov
  Location unknownKirov OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Victoria Kutilova
  Location unknownIrkutsk OblastArticle 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Marin
  Location unknownMordoviaArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Roman Meshcheryakov
  Location unknownArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Mozharov
  Location unknownArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years 6 months
• Zakhar Petukhov
  Location unknownKaluga OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Prikazchikov
  Location unknownOrenburg OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Regush
  Location unknownMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Zaidulla Rezvanov
  Location unknownKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Savchuk
  Location unknownArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Elvira Sayfullina
  Location unknownKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Sidorov
  Location unknownChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexandr Solodkii
  Location unknownOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgenii Tolstoi
  Location unknownArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Olga Trifonova
  Location unknownMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolay Usov
  Location unknownAltai KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Chebyshev
  Location unknownArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Chertov
  Location unknownOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan Abasov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan Abdurakhmanov
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Eugene Abramovsky
  Not in RussiaTomsk OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Parvinakhan Abuzarova
  At largeTatarstanArticle 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Olga Avdeeva
  At largeUdmurtiaArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Avramova
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Alena Agafonova
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Adarin
  Not in RussiaMoscow OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Radik Adnobaev
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 112 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksandr Akimushkin
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 8 months
• Gizem Akhan
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasily Aleksanyan
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 160 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Alyokhina
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Askhabali Alibekov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Andrei Allakhverdov
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ana Paula Almignana Maciel
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Altukhov
  At largeTula OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Mikhail Alferov
  DeceasedKemerovo OblastArticle 112 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Stanislav Andreev
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 158 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergey Arakcheev
  At largeChechnyaArticle 105 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Andriy Artemenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Arkhipenkov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ali Asanov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Alexander Atamanov
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 10 months
• Faiza Aulahsen
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Afanasiev
  At largeKhakassiaArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Gennady Afanasiev
  DeceasedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 (part unknown) applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Evgeny Afanasiev
  DeceasedSaint PetersburgArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 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