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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Grigory Mumrikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 3, Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Murachev
  At largeTuvaArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolay Murnev
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Valliam Mutallapov
  At large with restrictionsOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Mukhin
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Alexander Mylnikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Alexei Navalny
  DeceasedKirov OblastArticle 128.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Oleg Navalny
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Ismail Nalgiev
  At largeIngushetiaArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Alexandra Naumova (Dukhanina)
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 3 months
• Sergey Nevorotin
  DeceasedTver OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Prokhor Neizhmakov
  At largeVladimir OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ivan Nepomnyashchikh
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Vladislav Nikitenko
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Nikiforov
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 290 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Leonid Nikolaev
  DeceasedSaint PetersburgArticle 213 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vera Nikolaeva
  At largeMoscowArticle 243.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Nikolayenko
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexei Nikonorov
  At largeKostroma OblastArticle 272 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years 7 months
• Pavel Novikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sven Nordin
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Dzhamil Nurakov
  At largeAmur OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Marina Ovsyannikova
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Sergey Ozerov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Alina Olekhnovich
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Oleg Orlov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 129 part 3, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexander Orshulevich
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Vladimir Osipov
  DeceasedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Taisia Osipova
  At largeSmolensk OblastArticle 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Vadim Ostanin
  Not in RussiaAltai KraiArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Anna Pavlikova
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Lilia Pavrianidis
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Thomas Pipalas
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Anna Panteleeva
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 148 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Maxim Panfilov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Petr Parpulov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Valery Parfenov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 10 months
• Piruz Peikrishvili
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Pavel Pekpaev
  At largeMari ElArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Artemy Perevozchikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Maxim Petlin
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 290 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ivan Petrov
  At largeMari ElArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Pivovarov
  Not in RussiaKostroma OblastArticle 272 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Pavel Pishchulin
  At largeMoscowArticle 148 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Nikolai Platoshkin
  At largeMoscowArticle 207.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Plakhotnik
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Alexander Pogrebov
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ivan Podkopaev
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Vladimir Podrezov
  At largeMoscowArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Victor Pokusin
  At largeNovosibirsk OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code7 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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