Russia’s military court of appeal has upheld the five-year sentence passed on 63-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, a Ukrainian activist from occupied Crimea. The charges were preposterous, the falsification of evidence flagrant and Prykhodko should certainly have been acquitted. The prosecutor had, however, repeated his demand for an 11-year sentence and two rejections serve as an effective acknowledgment of the gravely flawed nature of this case.
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Crimean pro-Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko outside his home in Orekhovo, near Saki.
