Oleg Prikhodko
- Criminal Code
- Article 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 222.1 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 223.1 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 297 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Terrorism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 5 years 1 month
- Date of verdict
- 2021-03-03
- Region
- Occupied territory of Republic of CrimeaRostov Oblast
- City
- Rostov-on-Don, Saky
- Facility
- ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Краснодарскому краю
- Address for letters
- 350001, Краснодарский край, г. Краснодар, ул. Воронежская д. 42, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Краснодарскому краю, Приходько Олег Аркадьевич, 1958 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 14 May 2021
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 14 May 2021
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Case summary
Resident of Crimea, worked as a blacksmith. After the annexation supported Ukraine. Detained on 9 October 2019 and taken into custody the next day on charges of preparing a terrorist attack. Claims that the case was falsified. On 4 March 2021, sentenced to five years in a strict regime colony.
Two episodes during the trial on the case of preparation to commit a terrorist attack became formal grounds for a case of insulting the participants of the trial. On 17 January 2023, Prikhodko was found guilty in this case, sentenced to 360 hours of compulsory labour, which was replaced by a month of imprisonment.
In August 2022, a case was brought against Prikhodko for public justification of terrorism, and in 2023 - for rehabilitation of Nazism. The cases were merged. On 10 November 2023, he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and a fine of 110 thousand rubles.
On 22 January 2024, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by one month.
In March 2026, it became known that another case was brought against Prikhodko - on incitement to high treason: the FSB published a video with the story of an unnamed person, allegedly a prisoner serving a sentence in the same colony with him, who claimed that the latter agitated him to shoot "someone from the commander-in-chief" and surrender as a prisoner of war. Later it was reported that there was another article in the case - that of promoting terrorism.
Others charged under Article 205 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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