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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Sergey Akhmetov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan Akhmetshin
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 354.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Zarema Bagavutdinova
  At largeDagestanArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Nurmagomed Balakadashev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Nikolay Baluev
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 222 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladimir Balukh
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 11 months
• Andrei Barabanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 7 months
• Ekaterina Barabash
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Kirill Barabash
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 10 months
• Dmitry Baranovsky
  At largeMoscowArticle 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Akhmed Barakhoev
  At large with restrictionsIngushetiaArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Andrei Barshay
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ivan Baryliak
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 115 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Fedor Bakhov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Denis Bakholdin
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Danil Beglets
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Yuri Bezyazyazychny
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Berezyuk
  At largeMoscowArticle 150 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years 3 months
• Viktor Bespalchenko
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Jonathan Beecham
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan (Ruslani Talabjon) (Muzaffar) Bobiev (Murojonzoda)
  At largeMoscowArticle 148 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code10 months
• Svyatoslav Bobyshev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Dmitry Bogatov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolay Bogoslavsky
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 284.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasily Bozhovsky
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Philip Ball
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Bondareva
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Daniil Bondarenko
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Nina Bondarenko
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Alena Bondarchuk
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Dmitry Borisov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Yuliy Boyarshinov
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 3 months
• Kieron Bryan
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Brilkov
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Andrey Bubeev
  At largeTver OblastArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Yuri Budzilo
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitriy Buchenkov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Irina Bystrova
  At largeKareliaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Pavel Vazhenin
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Oleg Valeev
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Valiev Rushat Rashitovich
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Alexander Valov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 163 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vladimir Varimez
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Vasilets
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 2 months
• Anastasia Vasillieva
  At largeMoscowArticle 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Artem Vakhlyaev
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Marco Weber
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Khristoliub Bozhii Vegan
  DeceasedVoronezh OblastArticle 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Nikolay Veprikov
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Vertinskii
  At largeKomi RepublicArticle 243.4 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code3 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 Prisoners208
• Memorial Human Rights Centre125
• SOVA Research Centre4
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre1