Ekrem Krosh
Ekrem Krosh, born 1985, Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order); “The second case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Dzhankoi”. Sentence (April 29, 2025): 14 years' imprisonment, 4 of which in a prison, and the rest is in a strict regime colony, 1 year of restriction of… Status: imprisoned.
In brief
Occupied territory of Republic of Crimea · Dzhankoy · Manual workers · Terrorism cases, Cases against Hizb ut-Tahrir
Sentence
14 years
imprisonment, 4 of which in a prison, and the rest is in a strict regime colony, 1 year of restriction of freedom
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 278 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Preparing for violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, under the coordination of emissaries staying in Ukraine, he spread "terrorist ideology" and recruited local Muslims into his ranks at conspiratorial meetings.
Latest event
April 29, 2025 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 14 years.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 14 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
· Persecution begins
The second case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Dzhankoi
Criminal case
The second case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Dzhankoi
Other defendants in the case
- Osman Abdurazakov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Aider Asanov — Imprisoned, 11 years
- Lehman Zekeryaev — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Khalil Mambetov — Imprisoned, 14 years
- Refat Seidametov — Imprisoned, 14 years
Thematic group: Second Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Dzhankoy
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Full summary
Resident of Crimea. Brother of Enver Krosh, also arrested and charged in a case for alleged involvement in the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has no connection to terrorism.
On 24 January 2023, officials of the Federal Security Service (FSB) conducted searches of Crimean Tatars in different villages of the Dzhankoi district of Crimea. As a result, 6 people, including Ekrem Krosh, were detained and sent to Simferopol. The next day, the court sent all six to pre-trial detention on charges of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization and preparation for violent seizure of power due to involvement in the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has not been involved in any violent activities.
Krosh later said that upon admission to the pre-trial detention centre, he and other prisoners were made to squat for two hours and forced to raise their hands above their heads with their fingers up. Those who put their hands down were beaten, including on the head and with a stun gun. The stun gun was often used by the pre-trial detention centre staff in the future when prisoners objected and tried to defend their rights. Krosh also said that every evening during the inspection he was forced to recite the Russian anthem by heart. After one of his refusals, he was taken to a holding room where he was threatened and then beaten. "I was beaten on my legs below the pelvis, but I resisted. Then they hit me with a stun gun just below my armpit, in a soft spot - I was thrown back. They lifted me up and started beating me on the inner part of my legs, on my head," the prisoner told the court. After Krosh wrote a complaint against the officers who beat him to the head of the pre-trial detention centre Nikolai Riabov, the latter summoned him to his office, where he hit him in the ear and the eye, leaving a bruise.
On 22 August 2023, the case was brought to the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.
On 29 April 2025, Krosh was sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.