Since 2014, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has recorded 27 detentions on charges of participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion: 11 in the occupied Crimea, 16 in the occupied Kherson region after February 24, 2022.
- In the occupied Crimea were detained:
- Fevzi Sahandzhi (sentence – January 23, 2019)
- Dilyaver Gafarov (verdict – August 28, 2019)
- Edem Kadyrov (verdict – May 31, 2019)
- Aidyn Mamutov (sentence – April 22, 2019)
- Nariman Mezhmedinov (sentence – June 20, 2020)
- Medzhyt Ablyamitov (sentence – March 24, 2021)
- Ibraim Asanov (detained – January 17, 2023)
- January 25, 2023 resident of Sevastopol
- February 2, 2023 resident of Sevastopol
- March 13, 2023 a 39-year-old man in Crimea
- April 14, two Crimean Tatars in Crimea
- During the period of a full-scale war in Ukraine, we recorded 16 arrests of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in the territory of the occupied Kherson region:
- On March 4, a resident of the village of Rykove, Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars Nasrulla Seidaliiev was detained
- On March 31, Rustem Huhuryk, a resident of Novooleksiivka, was arrested
- Arsen Ibraimov, a resident of Kherson, was arrested on April 9
- On April 11, Artur Mametshaiev, a resident of Henichesk, was arrested
- On April 14, Crimean Tatar Rustem Osmanov was arrested
- On May 20, Ruslan Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the village of Azovske, was arrested
- On May 25, a resident of the of Partyzanske of the Henichesk District, Aider Umerov.
- On June 5, a resident of the Kherson region Memet Dovhopolov was arrested
- On June 18, Kostiantyn Tereshchenko, a resident of the village of Novooleksiivka, Kherson region, was arrested
- On July 21, a resident of the village of Salkove of the Henichesk district, Ihor Khalilov
- On July 22, Oleksii Kyseliov, a resident of Henichesk, was arrested
- In July, a resident of Novooleksiivka Serhii Hudym was arrested
- On August 12, a resident of Henichesk, Crimean Tatar Akim Hafarov was arrested
- In August, two residents of the Kherson region, Crimean Tatars Khalil Ametov and Mamed Mustafaiev, were arrested.
- March 16 in Novooleksiivka of the Crimean Tatar Rustem Virati
All these people are accused of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion.
We remind you that on June 1, 2022, the Supreme Court of Russia satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office to recognize the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion as a terrorist organization and the ban on his activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.