Hasan Dosti
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| In office December 12, 1941 – January 19, 1943[1] | |
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| Born | 1895 Kardhiq, Ottoman Empire (now Kardhiq, Albania) |
| Died | 29 January 1991(1991-01-29) (aged 96) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Balli Kombëtar |
| Children | Victor Dosti |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Profession | Lawyer, politician |
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Hasan Dosti (1895 – January 29, 1991) was an Albanian jurist and politician. He was the leader of the Balli Kombëtar after the war and was considered by the communists to be one of Albania's greatest enemies.[2]
Hasan Dosti was born in Albania (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in the village of Kardhiq near Gjirokastra,[3] to Elmaz Aga of the Dosti branch of Muslim Albanian Tosk household Dosti-Hajdaragaj.[4][5] Back then the village was part of the Ottoman Empire and belonged to the Vilayet of Janina with majority Albanian population. He attended the schools in Filippiada and the Philosophy Zosimaia SchoolinIoannina.[3] His family moved to Vlora after World War I, where Dosti met Avni Rustemi. Dosti then moved to Paris to complete his tertiary education at the faculty of law of the University of Paris.[3] After graduating, he returned to Albania to work as a lawyer.[3] In the 1920s he served a member of court of cassation of Albania under Thoma Orollogaj, who was the minister of justice at the time.
An opponent of Ahmet Zogu, he was imprisoned several times. From 1932 to 1935 he was sentenced to prison because of his participation in the Movement of Vlorë, an anti-monarchist organization founded by Dosti himself and Skënder Muço among others. In the late 1930s he organized an assassination plot against leading Italian and Albanian fascists.[6]
In 1941 he initially became Minister of Justice in Mustafa Merlika-Kruja's cabinet under Italian occupation;[7] however, in 1943 Dosti defected and joined the Balli Kombëtar.[7]
Hasan Dosti died at the age of 96. He had eight children, Luan, of Los Angeles, an aerospace engineer; and seven others who remained in Albania, including Shano Sokoli, Viktor Dosti, Tomorr Dosti, Ernest Dosti and Veronika Dine who spent their lives under Albania's Stalinist regime in labor camps and prisons.[8]
... whose father Hasan Dosti had been the leader of the BK after the war and was considered by the communists to be one of Albania's greatest enemies.
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