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3,157 people documented across Russia, Belarus, Georgia, and Central Asia.

Political prisoners, documented.Russia · Belarus · Georgia · Central Asia

3,157 documented cases. Updated daily from OVD-Info, Political Prisoners Support. Memorial, Viasna, and other documentation partners. Each case is translated into English, linked to its source record, and checked for duplicates, so journalists, lawyers, and advocates can search it and cite it.

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Critical caseTD·RU-0075

TD·RU-0075

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

Human rights defenders · Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Charge

Art. 207.3

Sentence

3 yr

Detained

—

Status

Convicted

Updated · Aug 16, 2026Open file →

Live data

996High-risk cases 318Cases reporting torture 1Arrest waves · 90d 215Sentencing anomalies 44Repression campaigns +22%Documented arrests · projected 30d, rising

Updated Sep 2, 08:21 AM UTC

§ 01What we do

We make frontline documentation usable in English.

An independent, non-partisan registry of politically motivated prosecutions across Russia, Belarus, Georgia, and Central Asia. We do not duplicate the work of frontline organizations. We make it reachable in English for people who would otherwise never see it.

01
Frontline organizations document the case
Political Prisoners Support. Memorial, OVD-Info, Viasna, CPJ, and regional monitors have done this work for decades. Every entry here begins as theirs.
02
We translate and structure it
Case records become one searchable English-language database of names, charges, sentences, and locations. Every entry still points back to the organization that documented it.
03
Journalists, lawyers, and advocates act on it
Search the registry, compare patterns across countries, and turn a documented case into a letter, a filing, or a story.

Search the database

§ 02Featured case

CriticalTD·RU-0075Russia · Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Critical case · requires international attention

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

Unknown

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter, a human rights defender, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for spreading "fakes" about the RF Armed Forces through a VKontakte post regarding Bucha and Mariupol. He has a history of persecution, including prior convictions and allegations of torture.

Occupation

Human rights defenders

Arrested

—

Location

Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Sentence

3 years

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Documented risk

High risk cases.

The cases with the highest documented risk in the registry, each linked to its source record.

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SBCriticalTD·RU-9307

Religious

§ 03Analysis & geographic distribution

Patterns of repression across the region.

Where the 3,157 documented cases are, and a 30-day forecast of arrest activity built from the same records.

Repression forecast · 30-day horizonLive

Trend · Stable

Computing 30-day trajectory from documented cases…

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Model · ARIMA-X

Geographic distribution · 3,157 casesSchematic

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§ 04Tools

Put the record to work.

Tools for advocates, lawyers, journalists, and families. Each one works from the case records and the sources behind them.

Advocacy tool01 / 03

Targeted embassy letters

Each case is matched to the embassy contacts and UN Working Group officials for the country holding the person. Draft an advocacy letter from the case record and send it directly.

Write a letter

Legal tool02 / 03

Affidavit support generator

Drafts legal analysis from case-level documentation for asylum and immigration attorneys to review and edit.

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Research tool03 / 03

Vector Explorer

Cross-tabulate any two dimensions of the database, such as charge by ethnicity or occupation by sentence year, and open every case behind any cell. For journalists, researchers, and policy analysts.

Open the explorer

01 / 03

Who the state prosecutes

Prosecutions, grouped by profession.

Every documented case, grouped by what the person did for a living, in total and across the countries we cover.

The Monitor

From our researchers.

Dispatches, analysis, and case stories from the team behind the database.

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News & UpdatesFeatured dispatchJun 30, 2026

500 Days of Protest in Georgia

Over 500 days of protest, and the verdicts keep coming. Each sentence handed down to the October 4th demonstrators is a call for the international community to bring attention to Georgia's political prisoners before more names are added to the list.

Shiza · 2 min readRead →

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Latest updates

Latest developments.

Recent reports on arrests, trials, and sentences from the sources we monitor.

MediumUpdateCivil Georgia

Tamaz Elizbarashvili, Prominent Dog Shelter Owner, Detained During Home Search

Read full article

14 hours ago

HighArrest

Pardoned Protester Held in Migration Custody in Tbilisi Amid Fears of Russia Deportation

LocationTbilisi

18 hours agoRead →

UpdateArrest

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been arrested

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been taken into custody by authorities. The specific charges or context of the arrest are not detailed in the headline.

19 hours agoRead →

UpdateUpdate

Hackers obtained donor emails from the 'Davayte' project and the 'You Are Not Alone' political prisoner support marathon. What are the risks?

Hackers successfully breached the databases of the 'Davayte' project and the 'You Are Not Alone' marathon, exposing the email addresses of their donors. This data leak poses significant security risks to individuals who financially support political prisoners in Russia.

21 hours agoRead →

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Where to start

Start with one case.Then follow it as it changes.

Search the database, open a case file, and get an email when the record changes. Every entry cites the organization that documented it.

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The Detained | Database of 3,000+ Political Prisoners

Sharp rise in activityOsh · 2 recent cases vs. ~0 typical

The database
3,157 people documented across Russia, Belarus, Georgia, and Central Asia.

Political prisoners, documented.Russia · Belarus · Georgia · Central Asia

Search the database Get email updates

Active alerts · last 24h

Osh2 recent cases · up from ~0 typical

Critical caseTD·RU-0075

TD·RU-0075

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

Human rights defenders · Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Charge

Art. 207.3

Sentence

3 yr

Detained

—

Status

Convicted

Updated · Aug 16, 2026Open file →

Live data

996High-risk cases 318Cases reporting torture 1Arrest waves · 90d 215Sentencing anomalies 44Repression campaigns +22%Documented arrests · projected 30d, rising

Updated Sep 2, 08:21 AM UTC

§ 01What we do

We make frontline documentation usable in English.

01
Frontline organizations document the case
Political Prisoners Support. Memorial, OVD-Info, Viasna, CPJ, and regional monitors have done this work for decades. Every entry here begins as theirs.
02
We translate and structure it
Case records become one searchable English-language database of names, charges, sentences, and locations. Every entry still points back to the organization that documented it.
03
Journalists, lawyers, and advocates act on it
Search the registry, compare patterns across countries, and turn a documented case into a letter, a filing, or a story.

Search the database

§ 02Featured case

CriticalTD·RU-0075Russia · Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Critical case · requires international attention

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

Unknown

Occupation

Human rights defenders

Arrested

—

Location

Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast

Sentence

3 years

Read full case Take action

Documented risk

High risk cases.

The cases with the highest documented risk in the registry, each linked to its source record.

View all high risk cases

SBCriticalTD·RU-9307

Religious

Samvel Babayan

Samara, RussiaRU

CriticalTD·RU-0095

Other

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Babich

Hola Prystan, Kherson regionRU

EFCriticalTD·RU-0541

Activism

Ekaterina Fatyanova

Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk KraiRU

APCriticalTD·RU-4237

Protest

Ahmed Pogorov

Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol KraiRU

§ 03Analysis & geographic distribution

Patterns of repression across the region.

Where the 3,157 documented cases are, and a 30-day forecast of arrest activity built from the same records.

Repression forecast · 30-day horizonLive

Trend · Stable

Computing 30-day trajectory from documented cases…

Loading…

Model · ARIMA-X

Geographic distribution · 3,157 casesSchematic

CriticalHighMedium

Open full map →

§ 04Tools

Put the record to work.

Tools for advocates, lawyers, journalists, and families. Each one works from the case records and the sources behind them.

Advocacy tool01 / 03

Targeted embassy letters

Each case is matched to the embassy contacts and UN Working Group officials for the country holding the person. Draft an advocacy letter from the case record and send it directly.

Write a letter

Legal tool02 / 03

Affidavit support generator

Drafts legal analysis from case-level documentation for asylum and immigration attorneys to review and edit.

Open the workspace

Research tool03 / 03

Vector Explorer

Cross-tabulate any two dimensions of the database, such as charge by ethnicity or occupation by sentence year, and open every case behind any cell. For journalists, researchers, and policy analysts.

Open the explorer

01 / 03

Who the state prosecutes

Prosecutions, grouped by profession.

Every documented case, grouped by what the person did for a living, in total and across the countries we cover.

The Monitor

From our researchers.

Dispatches, analysis, and case stories from the team behind the database.

Read The Monitor

News & UpdatesFeatured dispatchJun 30, 2026

500 Days of Protest in Georgia

Shiza · 2 min readRead →

Read The Monitor

Latest updates

Latest developments.

Recent reports on arrests, trials, and sentences from the sources we monitor.

MediumUpdateCivil Georgia

Tamaz Elizbarashvili, Prominent Dog Shelter Owner, Detained During Home Search

Read full article

14 hours ago

HighArrest

Pardoned Protester Held in Migration Custody in Tbilisi Amid Fears of Russia Deportation

LocationTbilisi

18 hours agoRead →

UpdateArrest

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been arrested

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been taken into custody by authorities. The specific charges or context of the arrest are not detailed in the headline.

19 hours agoRead →

UpdateUpdate

Hackers obtained donor emails from the 'Davayte' project and the 'You Are Not Alone' political prisoner support marathon. What are the risks?

21 hours agoRead →

View all updates & analysis

Political prisoners, documented.Russia · Belarus · Georgia · Central Asia

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

We make frontline documentation usable in English.

Frontline organizations document the case

We translate and structure it

Journalists, lawyers, and advocates act on it

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

High risk cases.

Samvel Babayan

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Babich

Ekaterina Fatyanova

Ahmed Pogorov

Patterns of repression across the region.

Trend · Stable

Get updates as the record changes.

Put the record to work.

Targeted embassy letters

Affidavit support generator

Vector Explorer

Prosecutions, grouped by profession.

From our researchers.

500 Days of Protest in Georgia

Latest developments.

Tamaz Elizbarashvili, Prominent Dog Shelter Owner, Detained During Home Search

Pardoned Protester Held in Migration Custody in Tbilisi Amid Fears of Russia Deportation

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been arrested

Hackers obtained donor emails from the 'Davayte' project and the 'You Are Not Alone' political prisoner support marathon. What are the risks?

Start with one case.Then follow it as it changes.

Political prisoners, documented.Russia · Belarus · Georgia · Central Asia

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

We make frontline documentation usable in English.

Frontline organizations document the case

We translate and structure it

Journalists, lawyers, and advocates act on it

Gregory Marcus Severin Winter

High risk cases.

Samvel Babayan

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Babich

Ekaterina Fatyanova

Ahmed Pogorov

Patterns of repression across the region.

Trend · Stable

Get updates as the record changes.

Put the record to work.

Targeted embassy letters

Affidavit support generator

Vector Explorer

Prosecutions, grouped by profession.

From our researchers.

500 Days of Protest in Georgia

Latest developments.

Tamaz Elizbarashvili, Prominent Dog Shelter Owner, Detained During Home Search

Pardoned Protester Held in Migration Custody in Tbilisi Amid Fears of Russia Deportation

Tamaz Elizbarashvili has been arrested

Hackers obtained donor emails from the 'Davayte' project and the 'You Are Not Alone' political prisoner support marathon. What are the risks?

The Viasna Human Rights Center is an official data partner of The Detained. Belarus's register of political prisoners, maintained since 1996.