Crimean Tatar activist Enver Krosh, previously detained in Dzhankoy, spoke about the torture he experienced.

According to him, this happened after his apartment was searched. Six masked operatives took the activist for interrogation to the FSB headquarters in Simferopol. All the time on the road, they demanded Krosh to unlock his phone, and in response to a refusal, they handcuffed his hands from behind, laid him face down on the floor, raised his hands by the handcuffs, and then abruptly lowered him to the floor.

Also during the trip, a belt was put over the activist's head, and they pulled it up, covering his nose and mouth so that he could not breathe. At the same time, they beat him on the head and body and stood on his feet. The torture continued for half an hour. After that, Krosh was put on the seat and for the rest of the road they beat him on the head, and they also tried to unlock the phone by putting it on his fingers.

Krosh's lawyer, Emil Kurbedinov, said that after the torture he endured, the activist was left with bruises on the back of his head, a bump from a blow to his temple, a wound with dried blood on his leg, and cuts from handcuffs. This is not the first time Krosh has gone through torture. In 2015, he was tortured with electric shock in the basement of the Dzhankoy police department.

Krosh, along with five other Crimean Tatars - Vilen Temeryanov, Murat Mustafaev, Seitiy Abbozov, Edem Bekirov and Renat Aliyev, was detained by FSB officers on the morning of August 11. Before that, all six were searched. Crimean Tatars are accused of being members of the Islamic political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia in 2003 as a terrorist organization. The reason for the detention became known only after they were brought to the FSB headquarters.