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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Andriy Drach
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 322 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
• Dudinov Sergey
  ImprisonedAltai KraiArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Vladimir Dudka
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of SevastopolArticle 222 part 3, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Sergey Dudchenko
  ImprisonedStavropol KraiArticle 205 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years 6 months
• Asan Dursunov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Anastasiia Diudiaeva
  ImprisonedLeningrad OblastArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Pyotr Evgrafov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Alexander Evdokimenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Andrei Evseev
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Polina Evtushenko
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Daria Egereva
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Ekaterina Egorova
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Felix Eliseev
  ImprisonedLipetsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Pavel Yelmanov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Oleg Elymanov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladislav Emelianenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Surlana Enchinova
  ImprisonedAltai RepublicArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrey Ermolenkov
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Vladislav Ermolinskii
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Kallibek Yeseniyazov
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Vladimir Efimov
  ImprisonedKamchatka KraiArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Danil Efimov
  ImprisonedVolgograd OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Mikhail Zharikov
  ImprisonedNizhny Novgorod OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 10 months
• Vasilii Zharkov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Oleg Zharkov
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Vladimir Zhdamarov
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Iaroslav Zhdamarov
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code22 years
• Sergei Zhelezniakov
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Anton Zhigalov
  ImprisonedKaliningrad OblastArticle 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code1 year 3 months
• Mikhail Zhilin
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 322 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 6 months
• Egor Zhukov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Vitalii Zhuravlev
  ImprisonedAstrakhan OblastArticle 280.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Semen Zabairachnyi
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Ilia Zabolotskii
  ImprisonedNorth Ossetia–AlaniaArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Yuri Zadorozhny
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Anton Zaitsev
  ImprisonedPskov OblastArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Valery Zaitsev
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Oleg Zaklekta
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Vitalii Zaluzhnyi
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Galim Zamanov
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Ekaterina Zaspa
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Evgenii Zakharov
  ImprisonedSakha RepublicArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Zemlyanskiy Valentin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 280.4 part 3, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Anastasia Zibrova
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Bogdan Ziza
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Dmitrii Zimin
  ImprisonedBuryatiaArticle 205.5 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Stanislav Zimovets
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Daniel Zinkovsky
  ImprisonedKrasnodar KraiArticle 275 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Leonid Zinchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Vladimir Zlob
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code

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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