Crimean political prisoner Prykhodko received additionally 4.5 years in prison

November 13, 2023

The Russian court added 4.5 years of imprisonment to political prisoner Oleh Prykhodko for justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 354 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and public calls for unleashing an aggressive war (Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

In total, he was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison.

We remind you that on February 8, 2019, Russian security forces conducted a search in the house of pro-Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko in the village of Orikhove, Saky district.

On October 9, 2019, Russian security forces again broke into Oleh Prykhodko’s house and kidnapped him. On October 10, a search was carried out in his house, during which the man was detained. His wife Liubov Prykhodko was also detained. On October 10, the Kyiv district court arrested Oleh Prykhodko. On March 3, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict to Oleh Prykhodko. The occupiers sentenced him to 5 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony with the first year in prison.