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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Olga Ivanova
  At large with restrictionsAstrakhan OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Natalia Ignateva
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Rinat Idelbaev
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Anton Izokaitis
  At largeNovgorod OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Denis Ikbaev
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Zakii Iliasov
  At large with restrictionsOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ilmir Imaev
  DeceasedTatarstanArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 5 months
• Dmitrii Ishevskii
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 2 months
• Alexander Ishchenko
  DeceasedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Tatiana Kabulina
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 267 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Kavinov
  At largeVladimir OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Mikhail Kavun
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Bagir Kazikhanov
  At largeUlyanovsk OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Maksim Kalinichenko
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Kameniuk
  At largeKamchatka KraiArticle 128.1 part 5, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Kapatsyna
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 10 months
• Ksenia Karelina
  Not in RussiaSverdlovsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Mykola Karpyuk
  Not in RussiaChechnyaArticle 105 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code22 years 6 months
• Ivan Kveselevich
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Annik Kesian
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Leonid Klepov
  At largeTver OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Eugene Kovalenko
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 3 months
• Dmitry Kozlya
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Andrei Kolomiets
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 105 part 2 items a, e, l applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years 8 months
• Daniil Konstantinov
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Maxim Kormelitsky
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 3 months
• Sergey Korneev
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Evgeniya Korotkova
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Kostenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Vladislav Kostyshyn
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Konstantin Kotov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Konstantin Kochanov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 213 part 1 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Gennady Kravtsov
  At largeMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Dmitry Krepkin
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Nikita Kreshchuk
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Krivov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 9 months
• Sergei Krivosheev
  At largeVoronezh OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Olesia Krivtsova
  Not in RussiaArkhangelsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Pavel Krisevich
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Tamara Kriukova
  At largeMagadan OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Viktor Kudryavtsev
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Kuznetsov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Yuri Kuliy
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 months
• Alexei Kungurov
  At largeTyumen OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Grigory Kunis
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Kurlov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alsu Kurmasheva
  Not in RussiaTatarstanArticle 207.3 part 2 items g, d, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Ruslan Kutaev
  At largeChechnyaArticle 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years 10 months
• Sergey Lavrov
  At largeKursk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Evgenii Lazutin
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year

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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