46 Ukrainian citizens prosecuted for participation in Noman Chelebidzhikhan battalion

August 20, 2024

Since 2014, the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre has recorded at least 46 detentions on charges of participation in the Noman Celebidzhikhan Battalion: 18 in the occupied Crimea, 28 in the occupied Kherson region after 24 February 2022.

People detained in the occupied Crimea:

  1. Fevzi Sagandzhy (sentence – 23 January 2019)
  2. Dilyaver Gafarov (sentence – 28 August 2019)
  3. Edem Kadyrov (sentence – 31 May 2019)
  4. Aydyn Mamutov (sentence – 22 April 2019)
  5. Nariman Mezhmedinov (sentence – 20 June 2020)
  6. Medzhit Ablyamitov (sentence – 24 March 2021)
  7. Ibraim Asanov (detained – 17 January 2023)
  8. On 25 January 2023 a resident of Sevastopol
  9. On  2 February 2023 a resident of Sevastopol
  10. On  13 March 2023 a 39-year-old man in Crimea
  11. On  14 April 2023 Crimean Tatar in Crimea
  12. On  14 April 2023 Crimean Tatar in Crimea
  13. On  30 May 2023 a 23-year-old Crimean man
  14. On  30 May 2023 a 24-year-old Crimean man
  15. On  4 August 2024 a man in Crimea (details of the detainee are being clarified)
  16. On  13 September 2024 a 54-year-old Crimean man (details of the detainee are being clarified)
  17. On  22 March 2024 a resident of Crimea (details of the detainee are being clarified)
  18. On  11 June 2024 a resident of Crimea (the data of the detainee are being clarified).

During the period of full-scale war in Ukraine, we recorded 28 arrests of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in the occupied Kherson region:

  1. On 4 March 2022, Nasrulla Seydaliev, a resident of Rykovo settlement, deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Mejlis of Crimean Tatars
  2. On 31 March 2022, Rustem Gugurik, a resident of Novoalekseevka
  3. On 9 April 2022, Arsen Ibraimov, a resident of Kherson
  4. On 11 April 2022, Genichesk resident Artur Memetshaev
  5. On 14 April 2022, Crimean Tatar Rustem Osmanov.
  6. On 20 May 2022, Ruslan Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Azovskoe village
  7. On 25 May 2022, a resident of the village Partizany, Genichesk district, Ayder Umerov.
  8. On 5 June 2022, Memet Dolgopolov, a resident of Kherson region.
  9. On 18 June 2022, Konstantin Tereshchenko, a resident of Novoalekseevka village, Kherson region.
  10. On 21 July 2022, a resident of the village of Salkovo, Genichesk district Ihor Igoshenko  and Igor Khalilov
  11. On 22 July 2022, a resident of Genichesk, Oleksiy Kiselev.
  12. On July 2022, a resident of Novoalekseevka, Sergey Gudym.
  13. On 12 August 2022, a resident of Genichesk, Crimean Tatar Akim Gafarov.
  14. In August 2022, a resident of Kherson region, Crimean Tatar Khalil Ametov.
  15. In August 2022, Mamed Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar resident of Kherson region.
  16. On 16 March 2023, Crimean Tatar Rustem Virati was arrested in Novoalekseevka.
  17. On 25 May 2023, Arsen Memetshaev, a local resident in Kherson region.
  18. On 25 May 2023, arrested a local resident in Kherson region, Ablyamed Memetshaev.
  19. 25 May 2023 arrested a local resident in Kherson region (details of the detainee are being clarified).
  20. On 4 September 2023  Nariman Ablyazov a resident of Genichesk.
  21. On 1 November 2023, Khalil Kurtametov, a Crimean Tatar a resident of Novoalekseevka
  22. In January 2024, Amina Kadyrova was arrested
  23. On 7 March 2024 in Kherson region occupants arrested Hennadiy Osmak.
  24. On 11 March 2024, a 55-year-old Crimean Tatar was arrested in Genichesk, Kherson region (details of the detainee are being clarified).
  25. On 27 March 2024, a resident of the village Rykovo, Kherson region Bilyal Abdurakhmanov was arrested in Rykovo village, Kherson region.
  26. On 17 April 2024, a 66-year-old resident of Novoalekseevka village was arrested (details of the detainee are being clarified).
  27. On 1 July 2024, a resident of Genichesk district was arrested (details of the detainee are being clarified).
  28. On 18 July 2024, a resident of Genichesk district was arrested (details of the detainee are being clarified).
All these people are accused of participation in the volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan.We would like to remind you that on 1 June 2022, the Supreme Court of Russia satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia to recognize the Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan as a terrorist organisation and ban its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.