Since 2014, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center has recorded 33 arrests on charges of participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion: 13 in occupied Crimea, 20 in the occupied Kherson region after February 24, 2022.
The following were detained in the occupied Crimea:
Fevzi Sahandzhi (sentence – January 23, 2019)
Diliaver Hafarov (sentence: August 28, 2019)
Edem Kadyrov (sentence: May 31, 2019)
Aydyn Mamutov (sentence – April 22, 2019)
Nariman Mezhmedynov (sentence – June 20, 2020)
Medzhyt Abliamitov (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 – 39-year-old man in Crimea
April 14, two Crimean Tatars in Crimea
On May 30, two Crimeans, 23 and 24 years old
During the period of a full-scale war in Ukraine, we recorded 20 arrests of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in the territory of the occupied Kherson region:
On March 4, a resident of the town of Rykove, Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Nasrulla Seidaliiev
On March 31, Novooleksiivka resident Rustem Huhuryk was arrested
On April 9, Kherson resident Arsen Ibraimov was arrested
On April 11, Henichesk resident Artur Mametshaev was arrested
On April 14, Crimean Tatar Rustem Osmanov was arrested
On May 20, a resident of the village of Azovske, Ruslan Abdurakhmanov, was arrested
On May 25, a resident ofPartisan village Henichesk region Aider Umerov was arrested.
On June 5, a resident of the Kherson region, Memet Dolhopolov, was arrested.
On June 18, a resident of the village of Novooleksiivka, Kherson region, Kostiantyn Tereshchenko, was arrested.
On July 21, a resident of the village of Salkove of Henichesk region Igor Khalilov was arrested.
On July 22, a resident of Henichesk, Oleksii Kyseliov, was arrested.
In July, Novooleksiivka resident 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.
On March 16, Crimean Tatar Rustem Virati was arrested in Novooleksiivka.
On May 25, three people were arrested in the Kherson region.
On September 4, Nariman Abliazov was arrested in Henichesk
On November 1, Khalil Kurtametov was arrested in Novoalekseevka.
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 granted the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the recognition of the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion as a terrorist organization and a ban on his activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.