Three Former Crimea Judges Sentenced to Up to 13 Years for Treason

Three more former judges from Crimea were sentenced in absentia under public prosecution by the autonomy's prosecutor's office. They were found guilty of high treason and sentenced to 12 and 13 years in prison respectively.

According to the prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, after the occupation of the peninsula, the convicts betrayed their oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people and went over to the enemy. In particular, one of them took the position of "judge of the Zaliznychny District Court of Simferopol", and the other two became "judges" in the occupation Kirovsky and Simferopol District Courts of the Republic of Crimea.

By administering "justice" on behalf and in the interests of the aggressor state, the convicts ensured the functioning of the occupation judiciary on the peninsula and assisted representatives of a foreign state in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine.

These are not the first criminal sentences against traitor 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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