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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Pavel Zlomnov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
• Vladimir Zolotarev
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Danil Zolotenkii
  ImprisonedNovosibirsk OblastArticle 205.1 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Valeria Zotova
  ImprisonedYaroslavl OblastArticle 205 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Nikolai Zyuzev
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 275.1, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Arsen Ibraimov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Grigorii Ivanenko
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 213 part 1 item b, Russian Criminal Code
• Roman Ivanishin
  ImprisonedSakhalin OblastArticle 338, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Maksim Ivankin
  ImprisonedPenza OblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Evgenii Ivanov
  ImprisonedAstrakhan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Oleg Ivanov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205 item a (part unknown) applied with Article 30 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Arina Ivanova
  ImprisonedKemerovo OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Andrey Ivashev
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Sergei Ivashchenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Khamid Igamberdyev
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.5 part 1, Russian Criminal Code16 years
• Mikhail Igumentsev
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Elena Ipatova
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Sergei Irin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Aleksandr Irkha
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Ismail Isaev
  ImprisonedChechnyaArticle 208 part 2 applied with Article 33 part 5, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Insaf Islamov
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Fidan Ismagilov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Istomin Grigoriy
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code23 years
• Munir Isiangildin
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Khalid Ishkuvatov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Ilfat Ishmuratov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 6 months
• Mikhail Ishchenko
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 208 part 3 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Sergey Kabakov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Boris Kagarlitsky
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Marat Kadyrov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 105 part 2 items zh, z applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years 6 months
• Kadyrov Osman
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Iurii Kaev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Evgenii Kazantsev
  ImprisonedKursk OblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code11 years 11 months
• Anton Kalakin
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Gennady Kalashnikov
  ImprisonedKomi RepublicArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Sergei Kalinchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code21 years
• Wished to remain anonymous
  ImprisonedOrenburg OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Solim Kamina
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Anatoly Kapralov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code15 years
• Evgeniy Kapustyan
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Pyotr Karamzin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 3 months
• Eldar Karamurzaev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Karaniku Elena
  ImprisonedKhabarovsk KraiArticle 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code17 years
• Viktor Karas
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Viliur Karachurin
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Miguel Angel Cardenas Montilla
  ImprisonedArticle 359 part 3, Russian Criminal Code9 years
• Sergei Karelin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Andrey Karepov
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 105 part 2, Russian Criminal Code21 years
• Ainur Karimov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code4 years 2 months
• Shokhista Karimova
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205 part 3, Russian Criminal Code19 years 11 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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