{"id":75964,"date":"2025-08-22T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/press-center\/oblychchia-sprotyvu-istoriia-krymskotatarskoho-aktyvista-envera-krosha\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:04:19","slug":"oblychchia-sprotyvu-istoriia-krymskotatarskoho-aktyvista-envera-krosha","status":"publish","type":"press-center","link":"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/en\/press-center\/oblychchia-sprotyvu-istoriia-krymskotatarskoho-aktyvista-envera-krosha\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of resistance: the story of Crimean Tatar activist Enver Krosh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Life before persecution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enver Umerovich Krosh was born on November 14, 1991, in Dzhankoy. At that time, his family had already returned from exile in Central Asia, where they had been deported along with hundreds of other families by the Soviet totalitarian regime. He received his secondary education in the village of Novostepove in the Dzhankoy district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together with his older brother, he started his own business repairing mobile phones. Later, he mastered several other specialties on his own \u2014 he installed air conditioners and repaired refrigeration equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enver married in 2012. The couple has three children: Kamila, Muslim, and Aziz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Persecution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Russia started taking over Crimea in 2014, Enver Krosh got deeply involved in his people&#8217;s community life. He went to searches at Crimean Tatar homes, joined in group prayers (dua), broadcast events live, and worked as a civil journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2015, he was kidnapped by security forces and subjected to electric shock torture in a building seized by the occupation administration&#8217;s security forces for their own use. The political prisoner was required to cooperate with the special services, give false testimony against other Crimean Tatars, and was pressured to lie, which could have led to criminal cases and further persecution of his fellow citizens. However, he categorically refused to cooperate with the occupying forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, the occupation administration once again resorted to persecuting the activist \u2014 he was arrested for 10 days on trumped-up charges of \u201cpropagating the symbols of extremist organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On August 11, 2022, the occupiers conducted another series of illegal mass searches in the Dzhankoy district. That day, they broke into Enver&#8217;s house. In addition to Enver, six other men were detained that day \u2013 Vilen Temeryanov, Seityaga Abbozov, Murat Mustafayev, Edem Bekirov, and Rinat Aliev \u2013 as part of the so-called \u201cfirst Dzhankoy group of the Crimean Muslims case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The arrest was accompanied by torture. He was taken away in a minivan accompanied by six armed occupying soldiers wearing balaclavas. On the way, Enver was beaten, strangled with a belt wrapped around his head, and his arms were twisted behind his back, forcing him to unlock his phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Behind the bars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2022, the so-called \u201cSupreme Court of Crimea\u201d left him in custody, rejecting the defense&#8217;s appeal. The hearing was held behind closed doors, with lawyers and relatives not allowed to attend. In October of the same year, Enver Krosh was forcibly sent for a psychiatric examination in Simferopol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2022, the occupiers have illegally extended the term of detention of the political prisoner in the pre-trial detention center at least five times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 5, 2025, the prosecution in a Russian court in Rostov-on-Don requested a 17-year sentence in a strict regime colony for Enver Krosh, the first four years of which he must serve in prison. The other accused \u2013 Edem Bekirov and Rinat Aliev \u2013 were sentenced to 15 years each, journalist Vilen Temeryanov to 13 years, and Seityaga Abbozov to 11 years (he is under house arrest due to his health condition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite an independent fingerprint examination confirming the absence of political prisoners&#8217; fingerprints on books allegedly found in their homes, they continue to be illegally detained in the dungeons of Russia&#8217;s SIZO-1 detention center in Rostov-on-Don.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75965,"template":"","publication-type":[57],"class_list":["post-75964","press-center","type-press-center","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-type-special-material"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The face of resistance: the story of Crimean Tatar activist Enver Krosh - Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ppu.gov.ua\/en\/press-center\/oblychchia-sprotyvu-istoriia-krymskotatarskoho-aktyvista-envera-krosha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The face of resistance: the story of Crimean Tatar activist Enver Krosh - Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Life before persecution Enver Umerovich Krosh was born on November 14, 1991, in Dzhankoy. 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