Vladimir Tkhor
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 5 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2024-11-21
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 7 May 2025
This is the assessment of the organisation named above, not ours. FACTUM reports it with attribution and does not make its own.
Case summary
A serviceman of the National Guard of Ukraine. In May 2022, he was captured on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Tkhor was accused of participation in the activities of a terrorist community: according to the investigation, he was involved in the activities of the Azov battalion. On 21 November 2024, he was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony. On 4 July 2025, Tkhor was handed over to Ukraine as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange.
Others charged under Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.