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Of these, 5 who asked that their names not be published — counted in the figure above and listed at the end.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

• Ivan Kartashov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Kamil Kasimov
  ImprisonedOmsk OblastArticle 338, Russian Criminal Code6 years
• Ian Katelevskii
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 163 part 3 item b, Russian Criminal Code9 years 6 months
• Liliia Kachkareva
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Alexander Kachkurkin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Eldar Kestan
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Khersonska oblastArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years 6 months
• Alexey Kiselev
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years 6 months
• Mark Kislitsyn
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Dmitrii Kistion
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Aitugan Kitikov
  ImprisonedBashkortostanArticle 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code7 years
• Andrei Kitkov
  ImprisonedSverdlovsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Dmitrii Kicha
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code21 years
• Mikhail Klevachev
  ImprisonedMoscow OblastArticle 105 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code19 years
• Sergei Klikunov
  ImprisonedAstrakhan OblastArticle 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code8 years
• Oleg Klimovskii
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Stanislav Klykh
  ImprisonedChechnyaArticle 105 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Daniil Kliuka
  ImprisonedLipetsk OblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Maksim Kliuchka
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Vadim Kobzev
  ImprisonedVladimir OblastArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Mikhail Koval
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code4 years
• Sergei Kovalskii
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code14 years
• Ivan Kovbasiuk
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code20 years
• Yulia Koveshnikova
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Zaporizka oblastArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Sergei Kovtoniuk
  ImprisonedMurmansk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Andrei Kogut
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Sergey Kozinsky
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
• Andrei Kozlovskii
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 243.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years
• Daria Kozyreva
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 167 part 1, Russian Criminal Code2 years 8 months
• Ruslan Kozmenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years 6 months
• Valerii Koziuberda
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Yuri Kolganov
  ImprisonedIvanovo OblastArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code12 years
• Nikolai Kolin
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code13 years 11 months
• Ivan Kolosov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code8 years 10 months
• Alexander Kolchenko
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 205 (part unknown) applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Alexandr Kolyuda
  ImprisonedRostov OblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Sergey Komarov
  ImprisonedIrkutsk OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Olga Komleva
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code
• Fedor Konovalov
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 205.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code10 years 9 months
• Vitalii Kononenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
• Olga Korneva
  ImprisonedSaint PetersburgArticle 282.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
• Sergei Kornilevsky
  ImprisonedJewish Autonomous OblastArticle 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code2 years 6 months
• Ekaterina Korovina
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.1 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code10 years
• Vladimir Korsunov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code5 years
• Pavel Korshunov
  ImprisonedSamara OblastArticle 205 part 2, Russian Criminal Code13 years
• Sergei Kosolap
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Luhanska oblastArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Kirill Kostygov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 275, Russian Criminal Code
• Ruslan Kostylenkov
  ImprisonedMoscowArticle 282.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code6 years 9 months
• Vitalii Kostiuchenko
  ImprisonedArticle 205.3, Russian Criminal Code18 years
• Andrey Kotov
  ImprisonedVladimir OblastArticle 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code3 years
• Sergey Kotov
  ImprisonedOccupied territory of Republic of CrimeaArticle 276, Russian Criminal Code15 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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