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After the illegal and unjustified liquidation of the Memorial Human Rights Center, with the consent of its Council, our team continues the work of the Memorial Human Rights Center Support Program for Political Prisoners as an independent human rights project

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Political prisoners:

2394

since 2009

1729

now

Who are political prisoners

Political prisoners

Number of figurants: 1729

Other victims of political repression

Number of figurants: 54

Political Prisoners — Victims of the War

Number of figurants: 556

Persecuted Jehovah's Witnesses

Number of figurants: 216

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Number of figurants: 222

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16 Jul, 2026

Alyona Lysanova is a political prisoner

The daughter of a United Russia politician from Vologda Oblast was sentenced to 13 years for donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and online comments in their support
16 Jul, 2026

Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’

At least 5,648 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
16 Jul, 2026

Pensioner from Tver Oblast has six-year sentence upheld over an emotional comment about the tax service

Larisa Mikhay, 60, has had her six-year sentence to a general-regime penal colony upheld on appeal in a case concerning public incitement to terrorism.
15 Jul, 2026

Ariadna Litvinova is a political prisoner

A former police college student deported from Turkey is facing criminal charges for "discrediting" the Russian army over an anti-war protest
14 Jul, 2026

No contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April

There has been no contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April. He has not responded to letters and has not been brought out to meet with a lawyer.
14 Jul, 2026

Serhii Korzh is a political prisoner

An employee of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant abducted in occupied Enerhodar was sentenced to 13 years in prison on espionage charges
13 Jul, 2026

Crimean resident Halyna Dovhopola suffers stroke in Russian penal colony

Halyna Dovhopola, a 71-year-old resident of Sevastopol, has suffered a stroke in a Russian penal colony.
10 Jul, 2026

Anhelina Skyba is a political prisoner

The widow of a Ukrainian serviceman who died in Russian captivity was sentenced to 13 years in prison for money transfers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
08 Jul, 2026

Luhansk resident convicted of service in the Aidar battalion dies in penal colony

Ibrahim Kudzhanov, who had been sentenced to 5.5 years' imprisonment for serving in the Aidar battalion, has died in a Russian penal colony.

16 Jul, 2026

Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’

At least 5,648 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
16 Jul, 2026

Pensioner from Tver Oblast has six-year sentence upheld over an emotional comment about the tax service

Larisa Mikhay, 60, has had her six-year sentence to a general-regime penal colony upheld on appeal in a case concerning public incitement to terrorism.
14 Jul, 2026

No contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April

There has been no contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April. He has not responded to letters and has not been brought out to meet with a lawyer.
13 Jul, 2026

Crimean resident Halyna Dovhopola suffers stroke in Russian penal colony

Halyna Dovhopola, a 71-year-old resident of Sevastopol, has suffered a stroke in a Russian penal colony.
08 Jul, 2026

Luhansk resident convicted of service in the Aidar battalion dies in penal colony

Ibrahim Kudzhanov, who had been sentenced to 5.5 years' imprisonment for serving in the Aidar battalion, has died in a Russian penal colony.
06 Jul, 2026

Pensioner whose symptoms of dementia are worsening has her sentence increased for donating to the Ukrainian army

Halyna Bekhter, a 68-year-old resident of the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast, has had her sentence increased from eleven to twelve and a half years.
06 Jul, 2026

Ukrainian prisoner of war sentenced to 28 years develops gangrene in his arm

Ukrainian prisoner of war Denis Dorokhin has developed gangrene in the arm in which he was wounded in 2022.
01 Jul, 2026

Nizhny Novgorod activist sentenced to two years for posts about Alexei Navalny and reposting ACF content

Nizhny Novgorod activist Tatyana Arshinova has been sentenced to two years in a general-regime penal colony after being convicted of participation in Alexei Navalny's 'extremist' organisations.
29 Jun, 2026

Former Kurchatov Institute physicist Dmitry Bogmut, convicted over anti-war comments, loses consciousness for the second time during prison roll call

Former Kurchatov Institute employee Dmitry Bogmut has once again lost consciousness during roll call at his penal colony.

Mediazona 21 Apr, 2026

The 225 donor cases. Russian authorities continue to prosecute donors to Navalny’s Anti‑Corruption Foundation across the country

At least 225 criminal cases had been opened across Russia over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) made after it was banned as “extremist” in August 2021
Novaya gazeta 17 Apr, 2026

Artist Liudmila Razumova fears for her life in Russian remand centre

Politprisoner Liudmila Razumova is reportedly in fear for her life following an escalation of hostilities at a remand centre in Tver.
The Insider 14 Apr, 2026

More than 2,200 Ukrainian citizens have been charged in Russia under terrorism and extremism statutes — fewer than 1% have been exchanged

As of mid-March 2026, Russia has charged at least 2,278 Ukrainian citizens under terrorism and extremism statutes
05 Sep, 2025

Aleksei Badmaev is a political prisoner

A student from Irkutsk has been sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of justifying terrorism and treason for comments posted on VK and a transfer of 500 roubles.
The Insider 27 Aug, 2025

Over 300 Ukrainian soldiers who fought in the AFU’s Kursk incursion convicted in Russia on “terrorism” charges

Более 300 украинских военных, участвовавших в боях в Курской области, осуждены в России за «терроризм»