Wife and daughter of political prisoner Prykhodko beaten in Crimea

As Oleh Tiahnybok, the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda, posted on Facebook, Prykhodko's relatives were beaten near their house.

Oleh Prykhodko, a native of Crimea, headed the Saky town organization of the All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda before the occupation of Crimea. After the Russians invaded, he was unable to leave the peninsula because of the health conditions of his relatives. In October 2019, Moscow special services together with representatives of the local occupation "administration" abducted and imprisoned Oleh Prykhodko. In April 2020, he was taken to the territory of the Russian Federation, to the Rostov pre-trial detention center No.1, where he was placed in solitary confinement.

"Today, our friend has significant health problems. He has almost lost hearing and vision, chronic illnesses have worsened. Meanwhile, Putin's prosecutors demand that he must be imprisoned for 11 years in a maximum security prison on charges of terrorism," Tiahnybok noted.

Former Kremlin's prisoner, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov also informed about the beating of Prykhodko’s relatives in the occupied Crimea. "They were beaten up near their house for the public support for a political prisoner – father and husband," Sentsov wrote.

On December 29, 2020, the court of military appeals in the Russian city of Vlasykha extended Prykhodko’s arrest until March 16.

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