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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Ruslan Ganeev
  At largeTatarstanArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Garnaga
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Alexei Gaskarov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Alexander Gejadze
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Jalaudi Geriev
  At largeChechnyaArticle 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Akhat Gibadullin
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilya Gibeskul
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Bogdan Golovash
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Golfiner
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Pavel Green-Romanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Elena Guseva
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilya Gushchin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Gaziz Davletbaev
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Nicolai (Mikola) Dadeu
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Dmitriy Danilchuk
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Mustafa Degermendji
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Marina Janjgava
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Nariman Dzhelyal (Dzhelyalov)
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 222.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Rustam Diarov
  Not in RussiaAstrakhan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Airat Dilmukhametov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Oleg Dmitriev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Maxim Dmitrienko
  At large with restrictionsMoscowArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Kirill Dolzhikov
  Not in RussiaOryol OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Dotsenko
  DeceasedLeningrad OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Yana Drobnokhod
  Not in RussiaNovosibirsk OblastArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Drugov
  At largeKareliaArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Maria Dubovik
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Anton Evdokimov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Valery Evsin
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergei Evstiukhin
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 148 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Vera Egorenkova
  At largeOryol OblastArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Egorov
  At largeTver OblastArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Denis Ezhov
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Vladimir Emelyanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Eretnov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 171.2 (part unknown) applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Evgeny Esenov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Vladislav Esipenko
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 222.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Kirill Zhukov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Nikita Zhuravel
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 148 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years 6 months
• Artem Zagrebelny
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 318 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 10 months
• Zagreev Robert Raufanovich
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 205.2 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Islam Zakirov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 8 months
• Alexander Zamyatin
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Zakhar Zaripov
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Larisa Zakharova
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Pavel Zelensky
  At largeMoscowArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 11 months
• Stepan Zimin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Vyacheslav Zinchenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Ivanov
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 10 months
• Pavel Ivanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 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 Prisoners207
• Memorial Human Rights Centre126
• SOVA Center5

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