“Why should I leave? I am on my land”, 61-year-old Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko asked after the Russian FSB’s last search by armed and masked men of his home in Orekhovo, near Saki in occupied Crimea on February 8, 2019. The FSB has now returned, and this time arrested Prykhodko, detaining also his wife, who is, however, being treated as a ‘witness’. Everything about this case is disturbingly reminiscent of Russia’s political trial of Volodymyr Balukh, from the Ukrainian flag over Prykhodko’s home and the evident attempts to terrorize him into leaving Crimea himself to the concocted charges when he refused to be cowered.
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Crimean pro-Ukrainian activist Oleh Prykhodko outside his home in Orekhovo, near Saki. He was arrested on Oct. 9 evening on ‘terrorist’ charges.
