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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Fanur Khazhin
  At largeBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vadim Khairullin
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 212.1, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Aitakhadzhi Halimov
  At largeKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Lors Khamiev
  At largeMoscowArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Magomed Khamkhoev
  At largeIngushetiaArticle 318 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Ekaterina Harebava
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  Not in RussiaMoscowArticle 105 part 2 applied with Article 33 part 3, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Ruslan Khubaev
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Mikhail Tsakunov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Tsukanova
  At largeSamara OblastArticle 330.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Lilia Chanysheva
  Not in RussiaBashkortostanArticle 239 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years 6 months
• Evgeny Chafonov
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Barakh Chemurziev
  At largeIngushetiaArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Sergey Cherepovsky
  At largeTver OblastArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Ivan Chernenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Roman Chernikov
  At largeMoscowArticle 222 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Zhanna Chernova
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 2 months
• Akhtem Chiygoz
  At largeOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 212 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Ramis Chirkinov
  Not in RussiaNorth Ossetia–AlaniaArticle 212 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Nikita Chirtzov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code11 months
• Anastasia Chistova
  At largeMoscowArticle 148 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code10 months
• Maria Chugunova
  At largeMoscowArticle 267 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 months
• Alexander Shabarchin
  At largePerm KraiArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Gleb Shabliy
  At largeOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 222.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Fanis Shaykhutdinov
  At largeTatarstanArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code10 years 6 months
• Olga Shalina
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Alexey Shamardin
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 158 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Natalia Sharina
  At largeMoscowArticle 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Mihail Sharygin (Nametkin)
  At largeNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vyacheslav Shatrovsky
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 9 months
• Vyacheslav Shashmin
  At largeRostov OblastArticle 212 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Anastasia Shevchenko
  Not in RussiaRostov OblastArticle 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Andriy Shevchenko
  Not in RussiaOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Shimkevich
  At largeTomsk OblastArticle 160 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Dmitry Shipilov
  Not in RussiaKemerovo OblastArticle 319 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code3 months
• Alexey Shirokozhukhov
  At largeMoscowArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Yaroslav Shirshikov
  At largeSverdlovsk OblastArticle 128.1 part 5, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Vitaly Shishkin
  At largeMoscowArticle 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code3 years 11 months
• Igor Shishkin
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Lev Shlosberg
  At largePskov OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code11 years 1 month
• Alexander Shpakov
  At largeMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Roman Shport
  At largeMoscowArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Alexander Shumkov
  At largeBryansk OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Galina Shurinova
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 171 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Eyvazov
  At largeSaint PetersburgArticle 294 part 3, Russian Criminal Code1 year 10 months
• David Eichendorff
  At largeTyumen OblastArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 months
• Ilia Iuzhakov
  At largeKrasnodar KraiArticle 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Matvei Iuferov
  At largeMoscowArticle 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Alexey Yanochkin
  At largeKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 212 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code6 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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