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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Igor Pokusin
  DeceasedKhakassiaArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years 1 month
• Aleksandr Poletaev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Poletaev Dmitrii Vladimirovich
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alexey Politikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Aleksey Polikhovich
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Konstantin Ponomarev
  At largeMoscowArticle 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code8 years 2 months
• Popov Sergei Nikolaevich
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Natalia Prydatchenko
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Nuri (Yuri) Primov
  At largeOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vladimir Prisich
  At largeOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Dmitry Protopopov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Liliia Prutian
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Putenikhin
  At largeMoscowArticle 319 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Samariddin Rajabov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Leonid Razvozzhayev
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Pavel Rebrovsky
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Maxim Reznik
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code5 months
• Sergey Reznikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 228 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vyacheslav Reznichenko
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Evgenia Rogozina
  At largeUdmurtiaArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Kristina Rozhkova
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 148 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Maxim Roshchin
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Lilia Rudenko
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Dmitrii Rukavishnikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Rustam Rustamov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2 applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Mikhail Savva
  Not in RussiaKrasnodar KraiArticle 159 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Mikhail Savostin
  At largeStavropol KraiArticle 228 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Nadezhda Savchenko
  Not in RussiaVoronezh OblastArticle 105 part 2 items a, b, e, zh, l, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Arman Sagynbayev
  At largePenza OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Dmitrii Salikhov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Konstantin Saltykov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 months
• Ekaterina Samutsevich
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Zarifa Sautieva
  At largeIngushetiaArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Danis Safargali
  At largeTatarstanArticle 115 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Dmitrii Semenov
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sofia Semyonova
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgeny Semidotsky
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Semionov
  At largeKomi RepublicArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Sentsov
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Igor Sergunin
  At largeVladimir OblastArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Lyubov Serebryakova
  At largeKemerovo OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Dolite Sinitsyna
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Irina Skorovarova
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Lev Skoryakin
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasily Slonov
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 282.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad)
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Smyshlyaev
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Rikhard Sobolev
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Sokolov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Aleksei Sokolov
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 158 part 3 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 Prisoners207
• Memorial Human Rights Centre126
• SOVA Center5

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