34 Ukrainian citizens are being persecuted for participation in the Noman Çelebicihan Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion

November 21, 2023

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.