Victor Dosti

Viktor Dosti (1925–2005) was an Albanian political prisoner, human rights activist and Helsinki Committee For Human Rights member.

Biography

Viktor was the son of Hasan Dosti, a lawyer who briefly served a collaborationist government under the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939, and who fled Albania at the end of the war to lead an anti-Communist movement in exile in the United States. The remainder of Hasan Dosti's family, his seven children, spent all the duration of the regime in internal exile camps and prisons. Viktor Dosti was 19 when he was first arrested, and he was 65 when he was released from the camp, with his wife and three children. He was married to Fatbardha Kupi, the daughter of Abaz Kupi, another exiled Albanian politician and strongman with family left in Albania, whom he met at the camp in Savër, near Lushnje in the central part of the country. Their three children were born in the camp. When they were released, the Dostis did not avoid the confrontation with one of their earlier executioners.

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