On the left bank of Kherson region the occupiers sentenced a 53-year-old resident of the settlement of Novooleksiivka for participating in the Noman Chelebidzhikhan Battalion.
This was reported by the occupation prosecutor’s office of Kherson region.
The pseudo-court claimed that since January 2016 the man allegedly voluntarily joined the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan.
According to the prosecution’s version, until February 2022 he transported battalion members to checkpoints where movement between Crimea and the mainland part of Ukraine was being blocked.
The court noted that the defendant could have ceased his participation in the formation, but did not do so and did not turn to law enforcement agencies.
The occupiers imposed a punishment of 8 years of imprisonment. The first two years the man is to serve in a prison, the remainder of the term – in a strict-regime correctional colony. He was also sentenced to restriction of freedom for one year.
Earlier it was reported that the occupation court in Henichesk sentenced 47-year-old resident of Novooleksiivka Eldar Karamurzaev to eight years of imprisonment in a strict-regime colony in the so-called case of the Noman Chelebidzhikhan battalion.
According to the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, in the case of the Noman Chelebidzhikhan battalion the occupiers arrested 73 Ukrainian citizens: 21 — in occupied Crimea and 52 — in the newly occupied territories after 2022. Seven people in Crimea have already been convicted, while Karamurzaev became the 30th person convicted in the occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Note that in June 2022 the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan as a terrorist organization and banned its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.