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Statutes

Criminal charges used against political prisoners

Political prosecutions run on a short list of articles. Each page below explains one of them and lists every documented case in which it was charged, so a statute number in a news report can be read against the record.

Russia

Belarus

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Uzbekistan

Practical guides

Counts are of published records in The Detained’s database that carry the article, matched after normalizing how sources write it. They are a documented minimum, not a total for the country.