Pro-Ukrainian activist Oleg Prykhodko, who was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony, was placed in a prison for especially dangerous criminals – Vladimirsky Central. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity public association.
“For a long time nothing was known about the activist sentenced to 5 years in prison. The last time he was visited by the Ukrainian Consul General Taras Malyshevskyy was on May 28 in the pre-trial detention center 1 in Novocherkassk, from where he was supposed to be transferred to a strict regime colony, but his whereabouts remained unknown”,- the message said.
We remind that on February 8, 2019, Russian security officials searched the dwelling of pro-Ukrainian activist Oleg Prykhodko in the village of Orikhove, Saky District.
On October 9, 2019, Russian security officials again broke into Oleg Prykhodko’s dwelling and kidnapped him. On October 10, a search was conducted in his dwelling, during which the man was detained. His wife Liubov Prykhodko was also detained. The activist is accused of “terrorism" and “manufacture of explosives.” The woman was detained as a witness, but later released. On October 10, the so-called Kyiv District Court arrested Oleg Prykhodko until December 10. Later Prykhodko’s DNA samples were illegally taken. According to lawyer Nazim Sheikhmambetov, this was done for the purpose of falsifying evidence. The political prisoner had his measure of restraint repeatedly extended
On March 3, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict to Oleg Prykhodko. The occupants sentenced him to 5 years of imprisonment in a strict regime colony with the first year in prison.