Former Crimea Judge Appointed Deputy Chairman in Kherson Court, Persecutes Ukrainians

A former "judge" from Crimea has been appointed as the so-called "deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional Court" and is punishing Ukrainians under occupation laws.

According to the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office, the former judge of the illegally created by the Russians Kyiv District Court of Simferopol has been actively involved in the implementation of the occupying state's policy aimed at persecuting Ukrainian citizens in Crimea since 2014. Since 2023, he began to "build a career" in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, taking the position of the so-called "Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Court".

Today, the accused administers "justice" on behalf of and in the interests of the aggressor country, facilitating the persecution of residents of the occupied territories through fabricated cases.

Earlier, three more former judges from Crimea were sentenced in absentia. They were found guilty of high treason and sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison respectively.

These are not the first criminal verdicts against traitorous judges from Crimea. Earlier, two former judges of the Sudak and Kerch city courts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were found guilty of treason. They were found guilty of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. Ex-judges of the Feodosia and Yalta city courts of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were also found guilty and sentenced. They were sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison with confiscation of property.

Previously, a former judge of the Black Sea District Court of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, who ruled against Ukrainian citizens for political reasons, including convicting Crimean Tatars and pro-Ukrainian activists, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 2020, this judge sentenced Nariman Mezhmedinov to 8 years in prison for allegedly participating in a "volunteer battalion of Crimean Tatars," and in 2023, she fined the Crimean for his anti-war statements.

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