Recognition by human rights organisations

Recognised as political prisoners

1,404 people

People whom human rights organisations have formally recognised as political prisoners. The criteria belong to those organisations; 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, 872 are behind bars right now; the rest have been released, are under other restrictions or have left the country. And 1,283 of the 2,155 people currently imprisoned carry no such recognition — see who is imprisoned right now.

• Camila Spesiale
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Staroverov
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Oleg Stepanov
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 months
• Sergey Surovtsev
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Alexey Sutuga
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 115 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 years 1 month
• Aleksei Sukhobokov
  At largeTver OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Tarapon
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Marina Tekin
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Vladimir Tereshchenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Ternovsky
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Andrei Timin
  At largeKhabarovsk KraiArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Timofeev
  At largeIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Sergey Titarenko
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Leonid Tikhonov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years 4 months
• Vladimir Tkach
  At largeMoscowArticle 282 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Victoria Tkachenko
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Lyudmila Tolmacheva
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Sergey Tokhteev
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitrii Tretyakov
  At largePrimorsky KraiArticle 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ivan Trofimov
  At largeMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ai-Tana Tugudina
  Not in RussiaAltai RepublicArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Inga Tutisani
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code4 years 1 month
• Vladimir Tkhor
  Not in RussiaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Oleg Tyryshkin
  DeceasedKemerovo OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Natalia Tyshkevich
  At largeMoscowArticle 151.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vadim Tyumentsev
  At largeTomsk OblastArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Aleksandr Tiurenko
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Roman Tyurin
  DeceasedOmsk OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Mannes Uebels
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Udovika
  DeceasedRostov OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Roman Udot
  At largeMoscow OblastArticle 119 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Malsag Uzhakhov
  At largeIngushetiaArticle 239 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Peter Henry Wilcox
  At largeMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Kirill Ukraintsev
  At largeMoscowArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 4 months
• Nikolai Ulitin
  At largeMoscowArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Lenye Umerova
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code
• Kirill Unchuk
  DeceasedMoscowArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Ksenia Fadeeva
  Not in RussiaTomsk OblastArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Irina Faizulina
  At largePerm KraiArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Federyakov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Mikhail Feldman
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Viacheslav Feshchenkov
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 months
• Viktor Filinkov
  Not in RussiaSaint PetersburgArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Andrey Filippov
  At largeMari ElArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Nataliia Filonova
  At largeZabaykalsky KraiArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 10 months
• Alexey Filugin
  At largeKurgan OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Fomin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Fonarev
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year 1 month
• Ilnur Khazhiev
  At largeOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years

Who does the recognising

Number of people in the database recognised by each organisation — all statuses, not only political prisoner. Criteria and procedure belong to the organisations themselves; their sites are linked where the address is unambiguous.

• Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners1,489
• Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners811
• SOVA Information and Analysis Centre738
• OVD-Info554
• Memorial Human Rights Centre497
• SOVA Research Centre253
• Amnesty International23
• Ekouznik5
• Crimean Field Mission4
• Solidarity Zone2
• IStories1
• Civic Assistance Committee1
• Krym.Realii1
• Crimean Human Rights Group1
• Mediazona1
• Pervy Otdel1
• Roskomsvoboda1
• Sibir.Realii1
• Glasnost Defence Foundation1