Russian authorities have stripped the citizenship of the convicted 58-year-old Crimean Tatar from temporarily occupied Novooleksiivka in the Kherson region, Nariman Derman.
This is reported by the publication “Graty”.
Despite a second-group disability due to epilepsy, in October 2024 a Russian court sentenced Nariman Derman to 3.5 years in a maximum-security penal colony. He was accused of allegedly taking part as a member of the Noman Chelebidzhikhan Battalion and is being held in the Russian town of Verkhneuralsk.
In June 2025 the occupation Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Kherson region decided to strip Nariman Derman of his now Russian passport, citing Article 22 of the law “On Citizenship”.
Recall, since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea the Russians forcibly issued passports to Ukrainian citizens who lived on the peninsula.
Later, cases were fabricated against almost 300 Crimeans and they were convicted as Russian citizens.
In 2023 Russia adopted a law that allows revoking acquired citizenship for certain offenses. That same year, the list of such “grounds” was expanded.
Earlier we wrote that a resident of the Kherson region, Crimean Tatar Rustem Viratti died in a Russian detention center. The occupiers accused him of participating in the Crimean Tatar volunteer battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan.