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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Konstantin Lakeev
  At largeMoscowArticle 167 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Dmitrii Lamanov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Victor Lapitsky
  DeceasedSaint PetersburgArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Lapygin
  At largeMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Egor Lauskis
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Konstantin Lebedev
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Platon Lebedev
  At largeMoscowArticle 159 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code10 years 7 months
• Igor Levchenko
  Not in RussiaMoscow OblastArticle 282 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Valerii Ledkov
  At largeKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anna Lepeshkina
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Lev Lerman
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Kevin Leak
  Not in RussiaAdygeaArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Sergey Litvinov
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 162 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Sergey Loshkarev
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 11 months
• Maxim Luzyanin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Alexey Lukyanov
  At largeKaluga OblastArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Denis Lutskiewicz
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Anastasia Lysenkova
  At largeMoscowArticle 243.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Lyubshin
  At largeKaluga OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Nikolay Lyaskin
  At largeMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislava Maiboroda
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Aleksei Maksimov
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Viacheslav Malakhov
  At largeMoscowArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Iurii Malev
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Eduard Malyshevsky
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 9 months
• Alexander (Father Nicholas) Mamayev
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Eugenia Shelkovnikova
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Margolin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Svetlana Marina
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Martintsov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Kirill Martyushev
  At largeTyumen OblastArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Mikail Markhiev
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Roman Maryan
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Igor Matveev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 159 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code4 years 5 months
• Filipp Medvedev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 11 months
• Vasyly Meleshko
  At large with restrictionsKrasnodar KraiArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vasily Melnikov
  At largeVolgograd OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vladimir Metelkin
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 151.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Pyotr Miloserdov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Sergei Mingazov
  DeceasedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Azat Mirzin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Stanislav Mityaev
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Azat Miftakhov
  At largeKirov OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 9 months
• Konstantin Mikheev
  At largeArkhangelsk OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Marina Mischenko
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Irina Mogitich
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Aleksandr Moiseiuk
  At largeRyazan OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Morozov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 4 months
• Alexey Moroshkin
  At largeChelyabinsk OblastArticle 214 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Rustem Mulyukov
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 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 Prisoners207
• Memorial Human Rights Centre126
• SOVA Center5

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