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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Maksim Bozhko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Boyko Yuriy
  ImprisonedKabardino-BalkariaArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Philip Ball
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgenii Bondarenko
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Yuri Bondarenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Maria Bontsler
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Borisenko
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Dmitrii Borisenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergey Borisov
  ImprisonedTver OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Victoria Brazhnik
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 284.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Kieron Bryan
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksander Bratakhin
  ImprisonedVologda OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergei Briukhanov
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Yuri Budzilo
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Elena Bulgakova
  ImprisonedPrimorsky KraiArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Bunin
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Anatoly Burov
  ImprisonedVologda OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Kirill Butylin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Nadezhda Buyanova
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Alexandra Byzova
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 6 months
• Iaroslav Bykov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Aleksander Bylin
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Fazyl Valiakhmetov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Evgenii Varaksin
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Vladimir Varimez
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Igor Varchuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Valentin Vasileiko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dmitry Vasilets
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 332 part 2.1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 2 months
• Ilia Vasilev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Maxim Vasyuk
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Marco Weber
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vedernikov Vladimir
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 111 part 3, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Sergei Veselov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Aleksandr Vechirko
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Andrey Vitovtov
  ImprisonedAltai KraiArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Vitushkin Evgeniy
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Yaroslav Vladyko
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years 10 months
• Dmitry Vlasov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Mikhail Vlasiuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Daniil Vodolagin
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Alexander Voevodkin
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Voinov
  ImprisonedPskov OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code1 year
• Varvara Volkova
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Davyd Volodin
  ImprisonedTula OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years 6 months
• Alexei Volsky
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Volskii
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Vorobel
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Nikolai Vorobel
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexei Vorobyev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 189 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Andrei Voronin
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code11 years 10 months

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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