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Biography Nait Hasani was born on January 15, 1965 in Randobrava near Prizren. His parents are his father Xhemaliu and mother Fahria (maiden surname Hoti from the village of Samadraxha). He finished his studies in the Philosophic Faculty- Albanian literature. He began his political activities very early, when he was in high school and later in the university's Student Union. So from very early on, police persecuted him. Now he is in prison for the fourth time by the Serbian regime. In 1983, he was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by the president
of the Court, Orhan Rekathati. He served his sentence to the last day in
several prisons in Kosova (Prizren, Gjilan, Dubravë). He was released
from Mitrovica prison on June 2, 1987. The second time he was arrested, he was sentenced on September 27, 1988 from the same Court to six and half year’s imprisonment. This time he served only 19 months of his sentence, because of an amnesty for all political prisoners. He was released from prison on April 23, 1990. The third time he was arrested on November 1992, and he was
sentenced to 40 days imprisonment. The
last (the fourth) time, he was arrested on January 28, 1997. This time
Nait was illegally abducted and for one month nobody knew anything about
his fate. Apparently he was severely tortured during this time. After two
days he was sent to Prishtina Hospital in an unconscious state with heavy
wounds on his head, stomach and breast (he had two bones broken). Records
at the hospital show he was registered as "person N.N." From the
hospital, he was then taken still in an unconscious state and after one
month it was finally learned that he was being kept in a secret base of
Serbian State Security in Hajvali. During all this time he suffered
extreme inhumane torture. After six months, he was charged, and after nine
months his trial started, which was one month and twenty days long. Nait, during the main session of his defense
speech, presented his political views. He informed the international and
national community that the Serb regime was exercising terror in Kosova,
and he predicted what was going to happen in the near future. In court he
said: "Kosova will win if not with dialog then with war".
Nait was not afraid of the punishment that he would be given. He knew that
his people were not sentencing him, but that an occupation court sentenced
him. However he was worried that he would not be able to help his people
when that help was needed. He said: "You can sentence me to 101
years imprisonment I am not worried, but I am worried that I will not be
able to help my people". In this trial he was sentenced to 48
years imprisonment. But because according to Yugoslav Penal Law the
maximum punishment was 20 years, Nait was sentenced to 20 years
imprisonment. During all this time in prison, authorities continually
physically and psychologically mistreated him, but he stayed stoic and
unbending. After
the war started in Kosova, on June 1998, in his cell in Prishtina prison,
he was visited by the Serb minister of justice who asked him: "What
do you plan do to after 20 years imprisonment?" Nait answered: "Not
after 20 years, but after a short time, I will be free and you will be in
prison". On June 16, 1998 together with some other friends, he
was transferred to the notorious prison of Sremska Mitrovica in northern
Serbia. In this prison, he was kept in isolation for a long time and
during the entire time, he was under extreme physical and psychological
torture. During the time he was kept in this prison, the director of this
prison brought to visit him many delegations and among them was the
notorious criminal Arkan. But,
Nait has always stayed brave and these provocations didn't make an impact
on him. After ten moths spent in this notorious prison, he and the other
Albanians were transferred to Nish prison where a guards' cordon waited to
torture them. When one prisoner was hit so hard that he became unconscious
and guards continued to hit him, Nait managed to cover the hurt prisoner
and to carry him to his prison room, while the guards continued to spend
their chauvinist anger by hitting Nait's body. After three days (April
26-29,1999) spent in Nish prison he together with all other Albanian
prisoners were transferred to Dubrava prison in Kosova. Nait was certain
that this gathering of all Albanian prisoners in Dubrava prison was
planned for a tragic end, and that is what happened there. During the bombardment of Dubrava prison by NATO planes 23 prisoners were killed and many others were injured, among them Nait. On May 22 and 23, 1999,guards, police, soldiers, and paramilitary and also Serb prisoners shot and killed more than 150 Albanian prisoners and injured many others (more than 200). Nait was badly injured in his breast, but again, he never stopped organizing and giving first aid to other injured prisoners. During those horrible days, when Serb guards and criminals in cold blood killed the Albanians, prisoners and especially wounded prisoners, looked for their strongest support in Nait, who with his will and moral courage managed to bring some optimism to them. Nait in the moment (May 23,1999) when it was certain that all
prisoners were going towards their death, he found the strength to say to
the others: "Today we are going to be killed, but this blood will
secure freedom for Kosova, which I love more than myself". After
those words, all prisoners saluted each other and went toward death
without fear. So, Nait's words give them a motive to be brave.
Fortunately, this second time wasn't the same as the day before when the
prisoners were assembled in the courtyard, and then they were shot at from
all sides with all kinds of military arsenal. On May 24, Nait was transferred in Lipjan prison in Kosova without medical treatment for his serious injuries. After 17 days, on June 10, 1999, the day after the war ended, he was sent to Pozarevac prison in Serbia, still suffering from his grave wounds from Dubrava massacre. In Pozharevac, he was beaten again until he lost his consciousness. After four months spent in this prison, he was transferred to Sremska Mitrovica prison in northern Serbia, where he stayed for nearly one year until the rebellion of Serb prisoners. According to international law, he and all the others should have been released immediately following the end of the hostilities. After the Serb prison riots, he was transferred to Belgrade Central
Prison, the prison where conditions for Albanians are very bad. There are
reports that there is not even enough air for the Albanians to breathe.
But Nait, even with piece of bomb still in his breast, remains stoic and
brave, as do many others. Nait and other prisoners are
stoic and brave but how does international community feel when leave
Serbian regime to keep them still in prison simply because they are
Albanian and did not silently submit to brutality and repression. Release of Nait and other prisoners will bring new energy in
Kosova. They will bring stability in Kosova because without their release
there is not going to be peace in Kosova.
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