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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Anton Voronin
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Maxim Voronovsky
  ImprisonedChelyabinsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergey Vorsenyuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Konstantin Gabov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Aleksandr Gabyshev
  ImprisonedSakha RepublicArticle 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vasily Gavrilishen
  ImprisonedKhanty-Mansi Autonomous OkrugArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Bogdan Gavyada
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Marat Gadzhiev
  ImprisonedSakhalin OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Gayduk Nikolay
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 205 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrii Gaiduchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Igor Gaiokha
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Ramilya Galim (Saitova)
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 280.4 part 2 item v, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Anton Galeta
  ImprisonedPerm KraiArticle 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Ivan Ganzii
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Ganin
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Eldar Garipov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Garmash
  ImprisonedKrasnoyarsk KraiArticle 280.3 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Akim Gafarov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Dilyaver Gafarov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code9 years 10 months
• Mamuka Gatserelia
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 317, Russian Criminal Code
• Ulkyar Hashimova
  ImprisonedDagestanArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Sergei Geidt
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Dmytro Generaliuk
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Germizin
  ImprisonedVladimir OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Vladislav Gershon
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Aleksei Giletin
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years
• Andrei Gilishev
  ImprisonedTyumen OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Rais Gimadiev
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Pavel Gladkii
  ImprisonedStavropol KraiArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Oksana Gladkikh
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Arsenii Glebov
  ImprisonedTatarstanArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Andrei Glukhov
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Alexander Glushkin
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Denis Glushchenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code26 years
• Dmitry Gnatenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Georgii Goglidze
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Donetska oblastArticle 359 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Dmitry Goldychev
  ImprisonedSmolensk OblastArticle 208 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Mikhail Golik
  ImprisonedNovgorod OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Daniil Golikov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 243.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Nikolay Golubov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Lyudmila Gonchar
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Boris Goncharenko
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 205.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Viktoria Goncharova (Kutz)
  ImprisonedAdygeaArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Nazarii Gordeev
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Ruslan Gornostayev
  ImprisonedOryol OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Artem Grebeshkov
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Arthur Gretzkii
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Roman Gribov
  ImprisonedKostroma OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Alexander Grigoriev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Aleksei Grigoriev
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code20 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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