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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Valentin Sokolov
  At largeMoscow OblastArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 months
• Ruslan Sokolovsky
  Not in RussiaSverdlovsk OblastArticle 138.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 3 months
• Sergey Soloviev
  At largeVologda OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Asia Sorshneva
  At largeVladimir OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• 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
• Sergei Udaltsov
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vladimir Udovika
  DeceasedRostov OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Roman Udot
  At largeMoscow OblastArticle 119 part 1, 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
• 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 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

The Persecution section uses data from OVD-Info (CC BY 3.0). Methodology