[A-PAL] A-PAL Newsletter, No. 017

[kosova at jps.net]

Welcome to Albanian Prisoner Advocacy List -- Prisoner Pals Newsletter,
No. 017, April 03, 2000

This report highlights the developments on the prisoner issue for the week
of March 26, 2000.

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A-PAL STATEMENT:
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	Over 600 Albanian prisoners have now been released. With the exception of
the 30 or so minors, nearly all prisoners have been held for ransom. Some
950 cases are still pending. The trials continue to proceed with flagrant
disregard for normal legal procedures. In some cases, like the Kurti trial,
no evidence is submitted at all. In others, there are forced confessions.
	Interviews with released prisoners indicate that Lipjan Prison and Dubrava
were not law enforcement facilities, but much closer to prison camps, where
detainees were brutally and continually tortured, starved, deprived of
medicine and water. Not only are the trials now going on deeply flawed, but
international law enforcement procedures were not followed at any time in
these arrests. Now the detainees are being ransomed in a kind of "bazaar" in
the no-man's land between Serbia and Kosova. There is no possible legal
reason for the continuation of these unjust trials or the continued
deprivation of liberty for these individuals. One year under these brutal
conditions is more than enough.
	As one released prisoner said, "Even one day was too much."

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SPECIAL:  ** A-PAL NEWS BRIEFS **
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	A verified list of missing Serbs in Kosova can be obtained at the Gracanica
Monastery from Dejan Krstic. Many of the missing are elderly, nearly all
over age 50. Most of the incidents happened in June and July, 1999, but
continued up until November, 1999.
	The UN Security Council supposedly appointed a Special Representative for
persons deprived of liberty as a result of the war in Kosova. Mary Robinson
was supposed to make a formal announcement. Canada is April's UN Security
Council president. Email Canada's UN office for more information.
	Nekiba Kelmendi, cominister of Justice in Kosova, will travel to DC in
April.  Her daughter Kosovarja, human rights lawyer of Prishtina HLC, will
release a detailed report on the massacre in Vushtri.
	Rand Engel of Balkan Sunflowers will help APP/Prishtina look into starting
a video archive of interviews of released prisoners to document the
horrendous abuses they endured during their imprisonment during the war and
in Serbia.
	Despite over 25 reports of Albanian camps for detained Serbs, KFOR reported
on March 31, 2000, that they have found no evidence of internment camps as
alleged.

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WEEK OF MARCH 26, 2000 TOPICS:
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* KOSOVAPRESS: Anniversary Statement of APP addressed to NATO and
internationals
* ADVOCACY PROJECT: On The Record To Profile Civil Society In Kosovo, Volume
10
* AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Red Cross and KFOR "not aware" of existence of
Kosovo camps detaining Serbs
* KFOR PRESS UPDATE: Internment Camps Do Not Exist
* BBC: Kosovars pay ransoms for relatives
* RFR/RL NEWSLINE: Serbian Rights Activist Reveals Court Scam
* WASHINGTON POST: Group: Serbs Blackmailing Albanians
* KOSOVAPRESS: Paskal Milo demands the release of Kosova prisoner from the
Serbia jails
* KOSOVAPRESS: Six prisoners are released
* KOSOVAPRESS: Fifteen prisoners released
* AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: 12 Kosovo Albanians sentenced to prison terms
* FREE SERBIA: 16 ethnic Albanians convicted
* AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Trial of six Kosovo Albanians adjourned
* KOSOVAPRESS: Three persons released from Serbia jails
* KOSOVAPRESS: Five prisoners released
* ANEM'S WEEKLY REPORT ON MEDIA REPRESSION IN SERBIA: Ristic: I Wasn't Alone
* HUMANITARIAN LAW CENTER COMMUNIQUE: Presevo Mayor Sentenced
* AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE: Escaped Yugo anti-regime activist is alive and in
hiding: press
* ARTICLE 19: Serbian independent media: Int. campaign launched

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QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
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      Captain Jonathan Williamson of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards,
described the scene to the BBC's Ben Brown:
     "A lawyer comes down from Serbia into the security zone. He will be met
by someone from the family here and this is where the negotiations take
place.
     "You will see money changing hands ... The going figure is 10,000 to
30,000 DM ($5,000 to $15,000), so it's a significant amount of money."
     One released prisoner, Gezmand Zeka, said: "It's hard, because it's the
poor who end up suffering, the rich never suffer."
     He added: "I don't know if my family paid for me. I won't thank them if
they did."
     Some agonised relatives have asked the UN to buy back their relatives.
     Mr Kouchner said he had raised the subject in the UN Security Council,
and asked in vain for the appointment of a special representative to handle
the issue.
     At present all he can offer the relatives is comfort.  (Full Article
Below)

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WEEK’S REQUESTED ACTION:
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[by the Advocacy Project, full report below:]

First  what I consider the most important of the last:

- What Needs to Be Done:

The Association of Political Prisoners is appealing for a coordinated
international campaign to force the release of the hostages (web:
www.khao.org/appkosova.htm). This would include the following elements:
	First, the international community should declare the 'broadest possible
amnesty,' as allowed by the Geneva Conventions.
	Second, the Hague tribunal should publicly confirm it has jurisdiction over
the detentions.
	Third, the United Nations and the Hague tribunal should set up an
investigation into the poor prison conditions and lack of legal process
suffered by the hostages. Preliminary interviews with released prisoners
indicate that human rights violations and maltreatment are widespread.
	Fourth, Serbian judges, wardens, police, and Ministry of Justice should be
held accountable for their actions.
	Finally, the ICRC and UNMIK should develop a concrete plan for the safe
return of these detainees to Kosovo.

- What you can do

* PROTEST! Email President Slobodan Milosevic and demand the release of the
hostages (email: slobodan.milosevic at gov.yu).
* MONEY! Kosovar human rights groups need funds. With more funding, the
Humanitarian Law Center would be able to intensify its prison visits in
Serbia and also attend more trials. For information about donations visit
(web: www.khao.org/appkosova.htm ).
* PETITION! Sign the Petition to Release Kosovar Political Prisoners by the
Association of Political Prisoners (web:
www.khao.org/appkosova/app_online.htm ).
* SHARE YOUR VIEWS! Send your opinions on the prisoner issue to the APP,
which can then make them known to a wider audience.
* LOBBY! Contact influential politicians and policy-makers, including:
	Your country's secretary of state, local member of parliament, or European
member of parliament. Those in the United States should send letters to:
secretary at state.gov
	The European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee (chairperson Doris Pack:
dpack at europarl.eu.int) and Human Rights Committee (Elmar Brock:
Ebrock at europarl.eu.int). These two key institutions are receiving emails
from families of the detained in Kosovo.
	The United Nations, expressing support for a proposal by the U.N. High
Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, to appoint a special envoy on
the hostages. Also, urge that the issue be taken up by the working group on
disappearances of the U.N. Human Rights Commission (email:
secrt.hchr at unog.ch).
	The International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Geneva and ask
them for information on jail conditions (email: webmaster.gva at icrc.org).
	The international criminal tribunal in the Hague and urge the speedy
deployment of an outreach officer in Kosovo, with a mandate to energetically
support civil society groups (web: www.un.org/icty/).
	For further information, UNMIK reports to the U.N. Security Council provide
a full description of all aspects of the international administration in
Kosovo (web: www.un.org/Docs/sc/reports/).

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FULL REPORTS AND ARTICLES BEGIN HERE:
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KOSOVAPRESS
Anniversary Statement of APP addressed to NATO and internationals

March 27, 2000

Pristinë, March 27 (Kosovapress) - Today is an important anniversary and we
would like to thank NATO for its intervention here in Kosova. It marked a
historic change in the role of preserving human rights as a principle worth
defending above and beyond the principle of sovereign boundaries. We thank
NATO for its courage in helping start a new millennium with human rights as
a guideline. It is perhaps, the first time the world powers have faced up to
the saying that "For evil to occur, good people must do nothing."
	You helped change the course of history with this just war. Nevertheless it
has been a hard year here in Kosova, as we adjust to our new life as an
international protectorate. For thousands, the war has not yet ended. Many
families continue to live in a state of fear and helplessness, filled with
anxiety for their loved ones who are still, one year after the war,
imprisoned in Serbia. They were taken there on June 10, 1999, following the
signing of the Kumanovo Agreement. Terms for their release were at the last
minute removed from the agreement, which should have been stated in
accordance with the Geneva Conventions.
	Instead, these several thousand citizens are subjected to appalling abuse
and torture and many are on the verge of starvation. Their friends and
families, who have no access to them, fear for their lives. They are
deprived of all basic human rights for which you fought this just war. And
this is a disgrace that reflects poorly on all countries who are co-signers
of these Conventions. Nowhere does it say that the Geneva Conventions are
optional. We have been fighting for eight months with a world-wide campaign
to bring justice to bear on this on-going war crime.
	Also at this time, we would like to acknowledge that many, many Serbs,
especially elderly ones, are missing in Kosova since the end of the war. We
acknowledge the grief and frustration of their family members and hope each
case will be thoroughly, respectfully and impartially investigated and that
criminal acts will be punished. But we do not support the position that the
return of the Albanian prisoners must be determined by the sudden
re-appearance of missing Serbs. These are two separate legal issues with
entirely different circumstances in each.
	They require separate investigations and should in no way be linked or
dependent on each other. To all international leaders involved in Kosova,
please don't tell us that you have no power to help us. No war can truly end
until the prisoners come home. You brought us a just war. Now, one year
later, we ask you to help bring us a just peace. Make the return of the
prisoners a priority and do everything possible to determine what happened
to the missing, both Albanian and Serb.

ACTIONS NEEDED TO FREE THE PRISONERS

	Together with the UN Security Council, Kofi Annan, UNHCHR, and Special UN
Emissary for Persons Deprived of Liberty in Kosova, we ask all of you whose
countries are co-signers to formally ask the Serb Ministry for "the broadest
possible amnesty," as stated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949. These
international laws were in effect in Former Yugoslavia during the war. Their
application and enforcement is not optional, neither for your country or
FYR.
	We have opened an investigation in The Hague with ICTY, regarding the
arrests and detention of all those arrested between March 24, 1999 and June
9, 1999. We need help and trained professionals to conduct this
investigation properly. Initial interviews indicate that these citizens were
severely tortured and mistreated. International law enforcement standards
were not followed at all. Lipjan Prison and Dubrava Prison were used as
death camps, not law enforcement facilities. Police, inspectors, wardens,
and guards as well as their superiors with the Serb Ministry of Justice were
all involved in these round-ups of Albanians during the NATO bombing
campaign. Initial investigations show that roundups coincide with the
intensity of bombing raids by NATO, especially in Gjakova and Peje.
The prisoners were used as collective punishment for NATO bombing in Serbia.
	Punish all Serb judges who failed to enforce the Constitutional law and
International law in force in the State of Yugoslavia and who did not
investigate allegations of abuse and torture by the prisoners and
international human rights groups, as they are required to do under ICCPR.
	Make sure all returning prisoners are monitored by a neutral country and
ICRC during their return. Prevent them from being tortured, executed, or
maltreated on their return from Serbia.

NO MORE "DISAPPEARRANCES."

	Make sure they receive medical care for diseases, malnutrition, wounds, and
amputations sustained during their detention, and provide some income
support for destitute families.

http://www.kosovapress.com/english/mars/27_3_2000_1.htm

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ADVOCACY PROJECT
On The Record To Profile Civil Society In Kosovo, Volume 10

March 26, 2000

- On the first anniversary of the NATO bombing, the Advocacy Project's email
newsletter finds that agencies have ignored Kosovo's civic strengths.

	International aid agencies made little effort to strengthen Kosovo's civil
society in the months that followed the June 12, 1999 departure of Serbian
forces from the province, according to a new series of the email newsletter
On the Record.
     The series looks at the role of civil society in the first phase of
reconstruction, as seen by several prominent Kosovar individuals and
advocacy groups.
     Many of those profiled were broadly representative of the "parallel
society" that was created by Kosovo's Albanian population in the 1990s, in
opposition to Serbian rule. As such, they would expect to contribute toward
the province's transition to democracy and independence.
     The administrative structures of the parallel society effectively
ceased to exist with the onset of NATO bombing and the expulsion of refugees
last year. But those profiled make it clear that the spirit of volunteerism
and self-reliance that carried them through the 1990s survived through last
year. They described it as a "resource for reconstruction," and expressed
surprise that the U.N. administration made little effort to exploit it
during the first, critical months of reconstruction.
     The new series finds that the most resilient civic leaders in post-war
Kosovo have been those with the clearest goals. One of these is Kosovare
Kelmendi, whose father was murdered by the Serbian forces and who now heads
the Prishtina branch of the Humanitarian Law Center. The Center, one of the
few organizations working in both Serbia and Kosovo, is leading the campaign
for the release of 1,600 Albanians who were taken hostage by the Serbians.
     The Humanitarian Law Center thrives on international support and
directs its advocacy at the international community. But other Kosovar civic
initiatives found international aid last year to be almost as much a bane as
a boon. According to Igo Rogova, a prominent leader in the women's
community, international aid agencies indiscriminately poured money into
women's programs, creating jealousy and competition in the women's community
in Kosovo.
     Nazlie Bala, a prominent human rights leader, laments the way that
experienced Kosovars were hired by relief agencies for large salaries at a
time when their skills are badly needed by civil society. Halit Ferizi, an
inspiring leader of Kosovo's large community of disabled persons, was unable
even to attend U.N. meetings because no effort was made to provide access
for the disabled.
     The tone of the interviews is by no means uniformly critical. The
series profiles several civic leaders who have taken advantage of the open
climate and large international presence in Kosovo. They include, among
others, 14-year-old Gouri Shkodra, founder of Kosovo's Young Ecologists, and
Sabit Rrahamani, who has started a political party for Ashkali, one of the
lesser-known minorities of Kosovo. Halit Ferizi himself argues that the
presence of the United Nations in Kosovo, with funds for reconstruction,
offers an exciting opportunity to incorporate the needs of disabled into
reconstruction plans from the outset.
     The series will include a profile of the Internet Project Kosovo
(IPKO), which has brought the Internet to Kosovo. After relying on
international aid and sophisticated technology for several months, this
project was handed over to Kosovar management in March. It has already begun
to compete on the private market.
     The dispatches were written by Iain Guest, a member of the Advocacy
Project who visited Kosovo in November and December of 1999. Additional
research and editing was provided by Teresa Crawford and Peter Lippman, two
members of the Project who edited and produced the last series of On the
Record, also on Kosovo.
     On the Record is produced by the Advocacy Project, an association of
professionals set up to work with advocates for civil society and human
rights campaigners. Nine volumes of the newsletter have been produced. These
can be found on the Project's web site:
www.advocacynet.org

PROFILE -- KOSOVARE KELMENDI, ON THE TRAIL OF WAR CRIMINALS AND SERBIA'S
HOSTAGES

Putting a Face to War Crimes

	Kosovare Kelmendi is a lawyer from Prishtina who heads the Prishtina branch
of the Humanitarian Law Center. Like many Kosovars, she can put a face on
war crimes. The night after NATO bombing began on March 24, 1999, intruders
dragged her father, Bajram, a noted human rights lawyer, and two of her
brothers out of their house. Kosovare discovered their bodies by the side of
a road two days later. Bajram was one of many prominent Kosovars targeted by
the paramilitaries.
     This terrible experience helps Kosovare to see the victims of war
crimes as people, not statistics. When we met, she was in anguish about 36
children who had been taken from the one village of Qirez and disappeared
completely. 'What did they do? What was their crime?' she asked.
     The ghosts of crime are everywhere in Kosovo. Some -- not so ghostly --
are even walking the streets. One old man from the village of Marevc saw his
son driven away by a group during the fighting. He recognized the Serbian
driver and even knows his address (in the town of Kamanica). He appealed to
KFOR, which was protecting the Serbs in the Kamanica region but received no
reply. He then went to Kamanica in the hope of talking to the man but was
prevented from approaching him by KFOR troops. In desperation, he asked KFOR
to launch an inquiry. Nothing happened.
     This particular exercise in futility could still turn ugly. After the
man brought his story to the Humanitarian Law Center, Kosovare Kelmendi sent
it on to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),
which monitors human rights. Two months passed without a reply. Kosovare
fears that the old man is being slowly driven crazy by the lack of
information and the knowledge that his son's killer might be enjoying KFOR
protection. Just before I talked to Kosovare, he came to her office and
warned her that he was going to shoot an international aid worker 'just to
wake them up.'

Detention in Serbia

	The attention of Kosovare Kelmendi, like so many Kosovars, is focused on
jails in Serbia, where hundreds of Albanians are illegally detained. In a
vicious postscript to their vicious war, Serbian forces rounded up the
prisoners as they left Kosovo in June 1999 and took them back to jails in
Serbia. Ever since, they have been used as human bargaining chips in the
Serbian government's efforts to win concessions from the international
community.
     Some of those detained were prominent civic leaders like Flora Brovina
(head of the League of Albanian Women) and Albin Kurti (the Kosovar student
leader). Others happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
According to Natasa Kandic, head of the Humanitarian Law Center in Belgrade,
at least ten of those seized were minors. They included six-year-old Sabri
Musliu. One of the detainees, Igbale Xhafaj, even gave birth in Pozarevac
prison. The mother and baby were finally released in December, in response
to public pressure.
     Conditions in the jails are said to be terrible. According to Rreman
Olluri, who was released from Pozarevac prison in December 1999, 40 men and
boys were handcuffed so tightly that their hands bled and then detained in a
tiny room, 35 meters square. In the Sremska Mitrovica prison, which is
off-limits even to the ICRC, the food is said to be inadequate and wounds
have been left untreated. Among those detained are Nait Hasani and Avnia
Memija, who lost an arm during a May 22, 1999, massacre at Dubrava.
     One of the most squalid features of the detention is the way that
Kosovar families pay to have relatives released. Serbian police let it be
known how many releases will be permitted in the near future, and this
information finds its way to their families in Kosovo (some say that the
information might come through KFOR). Families then travel to the border
crossing north of Podujevo where so-called lawyers from Belgrade present
themselves as middlemen and arrange a deal. Because so many in the Serbian
system take a cut, the cost has at times reached $50,000.
     The Humanitarian Law Center is working on detention because it is an
unacceptable abuse, but also because it helps to resolve the fate of the
missing in Kosovo. Once a prisoner is confirmed as alive in a Serbian jail,
another name can be struck of the list of missing. It may be scant
consolation to their relatives, but at least their loved one is alive.
Taking advantage of its office in Belgrade, the Center's lawyers have made
an effort to visit as many detainees as possible.
     The obstacles are daunting. The lawyers are unable to visit military
prisons, and so have no way of knowing how many detainees may be there. Even
when visits are permitted, the Serbian authorities require written
permission from the prisoner's family in Kosovo and do not allow
interpreters in the jails. This is a problem for the Albanian prisoners who
don't speak Serbian (the language of the Center's Belgrade lawyers). Guards
listen in on the conversations between lawyer and prisoner, making it hard
to inquire about other prisoners. All of which explains why there is still
no clear estimate on the number of detainees.
     Although most prisoners welcome assistance, some spurn it altogether.
Albin Kurti, the Albanian student leader, has steadfastly refused to accept
the services of a lawyer because it would mean cooperating with the Serbian
justice system and tacitly admitting to a wrong. On March 13 Kurti was
sentenced to 15 years in prison.  Among the charges against him -- donating
blood to wounded KLA members. (For a photo of Kurti at his trial, consult
the web site: www.prishtina.com).
     The work of the Humanitarian Law Center on both sides of the border
makes it the only truly multiethnic human rights organization in Kosovo. It
also means that the Center's Serbian director, Natasa Kandic, is one of the
few Serbians respected in Kosovo.
     But the work is difficult and dangerous. On December 3, Teki Bokshi,
one of the Center's lawyers, was kidnapped while he and two colleagues were
returning to Belgrade after visiting clients in the Sremska Mitrovica
Detention Center. The kidnappers stopped the car, seized the keys, and took
Bokshi off for questioning -- leaving the other two by the side of the road
for several hours. He was released after 13 days in detention, once his
family had paid 100,000 DM to five kidnappers. The ransom was negotiated by
a Belgrade-based Serb attorney formerly from Prishtina. Natasa Kandic has
been repeatedly threatened and intimidated.

The Grass-Roots Campaign

	The detention issue is tailor-made for advocacy, and it has energized an
extraordinary grass-roots campaign around the world. One of the leaders is
Alice Mead, an author of children's books, who first visited Kosovo in 1994
armed with a camera. Two years ago, she co-founded the Kosova Action
Network. With the outbreak of war, she has been working tirelessly to
generate interest and support for the Kosovars. (Visit Alice's home page:
www.home.maine.rr.com/alicemead/).
     Last September the Kosova Action Network joined forces with Naida
Dukaj, 23, who runs the Kosova Humanitarian Aid Organization (www.khao.org)
in between working in her father's machine tool factory in California.
Together, Naida and Alice collect all the information available on prisoners
and issue it in the form of a weekly newsletter (Contact Albanian Prisoner
Advocacy List, or Prisoner Pals, by email: a-pal at alb-net.com).
     Some of the strongest reactions in Europe have come from Sweden, where
hunger strikes have been organized around the detentions. The unofficial
European archivist is Wolfgang Plarre in Germany, who committed himself to
the hostages last summer and has proven a relentless networker (email:
wplarre at bndlg.de). Bart Staes, a Belgian member of the European parliament,
is one of the most active parliamentarians (email: bastaes at europarl.eu.int).
The standard-bearer in the U.S. Congress has been Representative Elliot
Engel, who has a large Albanian-American constituency and has long
championed the Albanians of Kosovo (email: jason.steinbaum at mail.house.gov).
     The campaigners have stepped up their advocacy in recent weeks, and
with some success. They collected 100,000 petitions, organized hunger
strikes, and pushed lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic. This has
produced two resolutions in the European parliament and U.S. Congress,
respectively.
     They are now determined to get the issue into the American presidential
campaign. On February 27, 2000, Alma Rosa, a member of the American network,
handed a petition to U.S. Vice President Gore, during his campaign visit to
Las Vegas. Support groups have even sprung up in Malaysia.
     In spite of these successes, the campaign still lacks a political
champion at the highest levels. The 100,000 petitions have been languishing
for weeks in Prishtina and Brussels because there is no one willing to take
them and act. In spite of the web sites and information sharing, information
about the detainees is still relatively unfocused. No one has yet conducted
methodical interviews with released prisoners to get a rounded picture of
conditions in the prisons.

Targets and Dilemmas

	Although the issue of the hostages seems clear cut and straightforward, the
targets for any campaign have to be carefully chosen. The issue would seem
tailor-made for Serbia's democratic opposition. Yet they have been largely
silent, with the exception of students. On January 15, the student forum of
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia met in Skopje, Macedonia,
and demanded the immediate release of all Albanians who had not been
charged, and the revision of all court proceedings against those charged
since March 1989.
     The question is how far the international campaign should go in putting
pressure on Milosevic's democratic opponents to protest – and whether this
would weaken their support in Serbia. At first sight, the Serbian judiciary
would seem to be fair game, because on the few occasions that a case has
come to court, the Serbian judges have shown very little sense of justice or
independence. The most flagrant example was the recent 12-year sentence
handed down to Flora Brovina, on a trumped-up charge of terrorism. This case
was well attended by foreign observers, and many advocates would like to see
much more monitoring like this. Even more recently, Albin Kurti, another
high profile case was sentenced to 15 years. He refused to mount a defense
or respond to prosecution questions, saying he did not recognize the
legitimacy of the court.  He said 'This court has nothing to do with truth
and justice, it serves the policies of Milosevic's regime which has kept
Kosovo under occupation.'
	Some even favor publishing the names of judges and details of the
decisions, in an effort to shame the judiciary into holding fair trials.
Dragoljub Draskovic and Dragoljub Zdravkovic are two judges who have been
handing out particularly severe sentences in the Serbian town of Nis. Judge
Milomar Lazic sentenced 8 Albanians to terms of 15 years, based on
confessions extracted by torture. 'The entire prison and judicial service is
a torture machine,' argues Alice Mead. 'It has to be exposed.'
     But others feel that too much publicity and pressure could backfire, by
making it impossible for judges to defy the Serbian authorities at so public
a setting. The severe sentence give to Flora Brovina, they say, was a case
in point.
     Should humanitarian assistance be used as a lever? Serbia has 800,000
refugees and displaced persons -- the largest caseload in Europe. Some
advocates, such as the Washington-based Balkans Action Council, feel that
Serbia should not receive humanitarian aid as long as any detainees are in
jail (email: bac at balkanaction.org). Others argue that Serbia's huge
population of displaced and refugees should not be made to suffer for the
cruelty of Milosevic's regime -- and that to do so would be to follow his
example and politicize humanitarianism.

Pressuring the United Nations

	Virtually everyone agrees that European governments, the United States, and
the United Nations must be made to keep up a drumbeat of pressure on Serbia,
and that there can be no normalization of relations as long as a single
detainee remains behind bars. For months, activists in Kosovo like Kosovare
Kelmendi were gravely disappointed by the muted international response
particularly that of UNMIK in Kosovo itself.
     Eventually, UNMIK formed a working group to coordinate action on the
issue among its sprawling components. The group began meeting every two
weeks and recommended that Serbia be asked to produce a complete list of the
prisoners and set some clear priorities for release, with humanitarian cases
coming first. Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK, made a public commitment to
keep up the U.N. pressure.
     But the U.N. group lost some of its momentum when its coordinator,
Barbara Davis, moved to Belgrade to work from there under the auspices of
the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. Kouchner's enthusiasm also
seemed to wane -- to the point that he rarely even addressed public meetings
called to protest the issue.
     The Association of Political Prisoners (APP) in Prishtina became so
disillusioned at the United Nation's lack of urgency that it bypassed UNMIK
entirely in favor of an email lobby under which families of detainees sent a
personal email (via the APP's computer) to members of the European
parliament. This helped to prod the European parliament into drafting a
tough new resolution that includes sanctions. A vote is expected soon.
     To the relief of many, Kouchner and his UNMIK colleagues seem to have
rediscovered their interest in the issue. Kouchner has asked the Kosovo
Transitional Council (KTC) to issue a joint statement with him to the
international community. The Council issued its own appeal after meeting on
February 23 this year. A sign of progress is the fact that Shukrie Rexha of
the APP has been invited to attend Council meetings.
     Many of those frustrated by the lack of progress on this issue would
even like to see some pressure exerted on the ICRC, which visits the
prisoners in jail but discloses no information about conditions. The ICRC
argues that any such publicity would instantly put an end to its visits. Yet
its mere involvement brings a veneer of normality to the detention without
any improvement in conditions or reassurance to the families. Some of the
misgivings may be laid to rest by a new statement from the ICRC, which
points out that each passing day increases the anguish of relatives and
makes it harder to find peace in the region. (www.icrc.org)
Complete report:  http://www.khao.org/appkosova/appkosova-report0052.htm

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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Red Cross and KFOR "not aware" of existence of Kosovo camps detaining Serbs

March 29, 2000

PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, March 29 (AFP) - The International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) and the multinational force (KFOR) said Wednesday they were
"not aware" of Serbs being detained in camps in Kosovo, despite claims by
the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
     "We are not aware of such camps," the ICRC's Pristina bureau chief
Alain Kolly told AFP.
     "There is a huge number of allegations of illegal detentions of Serbs,
but we have never been able to confirm them," he added.
     The Helsinki Committee's chief in Novi Pazar, in south-western Serbia,
told the Beta news agency Monday about the existence in Kosovo of "six camps
in which Albanians are holding kidnapped citizens of Serb nationality."
     He said the committee had provided KFOR with the relevant information,
and that the ICRC also knew about it. The ICRC denies ever having received
the information from the committee.
     A KFOR spokesman in Pristina, Lieutenant Colonel Henning Philipp,
denied "the existence of such camps in Kosovo."
     "We have already heard in the past about such allegations, we
investigated but did not find anything," he added.
     The spokesman said KFOR was never contacted by the Helsinki Committee
on this matter.

Story from AFP    Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
http://www.clari.net/hot/wed/ar/Qyugo-kosovo-serbs.RTEf_AMT.html

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KFOR PRESS UPDATE
Internment Camps Do Not Exist

Pristina
March 31, 2000

	KFOR has received several media queries during the past few days concerning
the alleged existence of Albanian-run detention camps for Serb  prisoners.
Since KFOR arrived, some 25 reports from organizations and media of
internment camps have been submitted to KFOR and each time Military Police
and peacekeepers have conducted thorough investigations, all with negative
results.
	There is no evidence that detention camps exist in Kosovo

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BBC
Kosovars pay ransoms for relatives

March 31, 2000

	An emotional reunion on the border Kosovo Albanians are being forced to pay
thousands of Deutschmarks to free relatives held in Serbian prisons.
     Thousands of men are still missing one year after Nato began its
bombing campaign to halt Serb violence against the Albanian population.
     Their families are pleading for international help, but the United
Nations administration seems unable to help.

Shadowy lawyers

	Women holding portraits of missing menfolk mob the the head of the
administration, Bernard Kouchner, when he makes public appearances in the
province.
     "We are asking the West, which helped us get back to our homes, to help
us again - this time to find our missing people," said one of the women,
Hajrije Ibrahimi, whose husband has been missing for a year.
     Wealthier families are sometimes able to do deals through shadowy
lawyers.
     The men are brought to the border of Kosovo and Serbia where the
handover is observed by British troops.

Negotiations

	Captain Jonathan Williamson of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, described
the scene to the BBC's Ben Brown:
     "A lawyer comes down from Serbia into the security zone. He will be met
by someone from the family here and this is where the negotiations take
place.
     "You will see money changing hands ... The going figure is 10,000 to
30,000 DM ($5,000 to $15,000), so it's a significant amount of money."
     One released prisoner, Gezmand Zeka, said: "It's hard, because it's the
poor who end up suffering, the rich never suffer."
     He added: "I don't know if my family paid for me. I won't thank them if
they did."
     Some agonised relatives have asked the UN to buy back their relatives.
     Mr Kouchner said he had raised the subject in the UN Security Council,
and asked in vain for the appointment of a special representative to handle
the issue.
     At present all he can offer the relatives is comfort.

http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_697000/697595.stm

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RFR/RL NEWSLINE
Serbian Rights Activist Reveals Court Scam

March 30, 2000

	Natasa Kandic, who is perhaps Serbia's best-known human rights activist,
said in Belgrade on 29 March that Serbian courts work together with Serbian
lawyers from Kosova to pressure families of ethnic Albanian prisoners to buy
their relatives' freedom.
	The lawyers approach the respective families, promising liberty for the
prisoners in return for the payment to the lawyer of at least $5,000, AP
reported. Once the family agrees, the court gives the Albanians sentences
equal to the time they have already served while waiting for their trial,
thereby enabling the prisoners to go free, Kandic added.
	She noted that even poor families turn down human rights lawyers' offers of
free services because the Kosova Serb lawyers promise that they can secure
their clients' freedom in return for a payment (see "RFE/RL South Slavic
Report," 30 March 2000). PM

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/4-see.html

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WASHINGTON POST
Group: Serbs Blackmailing Albanians

By Katarina Kratovac
Associated Press Writer
March 29, 2000

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Serb lawyers are extorting large sums of money from
Kosovo Albanians jailed in Serbia, a scam woven through the court system, an
independent human rights group in Belgrade said Wednesday.
     Natasa Kandic, the head of the Humanitarian Law Center, said imprisoned
Albanians are introduced to Serb lawyers, who make it clear to them that for
a fee, they will be freed.
     Once they agree, the court hands down a sentence equal to the time they
have already spent awaiting trial. They are then released to their newly
hired lawyers - always a Serb from Kosovo - and handed over to their
families on no-man's land along the Kosovo-Serbian border.
     Family members say the same lawyers contacted them, promising the
release of their kin for a bottom price of $5,000.
     The Humanitarian Law Center's lawyers attend trials where ethnicity
plays a role and sometimes defend those charged. But Kandic said even poor
families sometimes turn down the free services of the center's lawyers,
opting for a Serb lawyer - who can guarantee the court will free them.
     When NATO took over control of Kosovo last June, Milosevic's
withdrawing forces transferred more than 2,000 ethnic Albanians charged with
"terrorism" from Kosovo to prisons elsewhere in Serbia. Scores have since
been released but others, mostly prominent figures, were sentenced to up to
15 years in prison. The United Nations mission in Kosovo estimates some
1,600 Kosovo Albanians remain in Serbian jails.
     The president of Serbia's Bar Association, Branislav Tapuskovic, says
the association can initiate proceedings against lawyers suspected of
illegal acts, something that could lead to them losing their licenses, but
all allegations first have to be investigated by police.
     "Corruption probably exists, but it has to be proven case by case,"
Tapuskovic said.
     The Center says it has documented how 11 ethnic Albanians from the
southwestern provincial town of Orahovac were released last month after
their families paid $75,000.
     Ethnic Albanian lawyer Kosovare Kelmendi, who works for the center,
tried to intervene last month in a case of extortion involving the family of
Ismet Gashi, a Kosovo Albanian freed at a trial in Serbia.
     Gashi's family had told her they were contacted by a Serb lawyer they
didn't know who promised Ismet would be released for $5,000.
     On the day of the promised release, Kelmendi says she joined the Gashis
on no-man's-land between a NATO and Serb police checkpoint and waited until
a car drove up from the Serb side. Leaving a driver and Ismet in the back
seat, the Serb lawyer approached them and asked for money.
     According to the group, the Serb lawyer froze as Kelmendi identified
herself as a member of the Humanitarian Law Center. But Gashi's brother took
out $3,500 and threw it at the Serb lawyer, who then ran back to Serbia,
leaving Ismet a free man.
     Halil Matoshi, a journalist at Pristina's Zeri daily, spent 10 months
jailed in Serbia on conviction of conspiracy to act against the state. He
was released in February after colleagues at the paper raised $6,000 for
him.
     "As money changes hands in private, little can be done about the
trade," Kandic acknowledged.

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KOSOVAPRESS
Paskal Milo demands the release of Kosova prisoner from the Serbia jails

March 29, 2000

Geneva, March 29 (Kosovapress) - The Albanian minister Paskal Milo, during
his session in Geneva was demanding the release of Kosova prisoners and the
missing persons from the Serbia jails. Milo also condemned the violence
committed during the last few months in Kosova.
	He said that there is a lot to do and to create a coexistence and to
establish a multi ethnic society in Kosova. This will be realized, not
wasting time and the great problems which are connected with the release of
all Kosova political prisoners and to search the missing persons for whom is
still no thing known since the conflict in Kosova.

http://www.kosovapress.com/english/mars/29_3_2000.htm

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KOSOVAPRESS
Six prisoners are released

March 29, 2000

Prishtinë, March 29 (Kosovapress) - Couple of days ago, the ICRC accompanied
six Albanian Kosovars who were released from Serbia jails. The four persons
were released from prison Kraleva, one prisoners from Prokuple prison and
another one from the Çuprija prison. Four persons were from Mitrovica, one
from Gjakova and one from Podujeva.
	For any more information you can contact with Nic Sommer, ICRC mission,
(038) 590 074501517/9 or (063) 344 164.

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KOSOVAPRESS
Fifteen prisoners released

March 26, 2000

Podujevë, March 26 (Kosovapress) - According to Albanian medias in Podujeva,
that yesterday from prison of Mitrovica e Sremit and Pozharevc were released
fifteen Albanian prisoners, mostly from drenica. Another three prisoners who
were released, they were returned back in Mallaplana.
	The police turned them back as they had not the right released papers from
prison. Also we got informed that one Serb lawyer, in a time when a prisoner
was released, the lawyer did not let him enter in Kosova, since then nothing
is known about his fate. According to these resources we could not get the
names of the prisoners.

http://www.kosovapress.com/english/mars/26_3_2000.htm

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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
12 Kosovo Albanians sentenced to prison terms

March 27, 2000

BELGRADE, Mar 27 (AFP) - Twelve Kosovo Albanians were sentenced Monday to
three-year prison terms for having been members of the separatist Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), Beta news agency reported.
     The 12 Albanians, all from Glogovac in central Kosovo, had participated
in "several dozen attacks against the Serbian police", according to the
court of Nis, in southern Serbia, quoted by the agency.
     They were arrested in September 1998 and had denied the accusations.
Their lawyers announced they would appeal.
     The KLA was officially dismantled in September 1999 under UN auspices.
     Some 1,300 Kosovo Albanians are still detained in Serbia, most of them
under "terrorism" charges, according to the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law
Fund.
     More than 2,000 prisonners, most of them Albanians, were transferred
from Kosovo into the rest of Serbia in June 1999, during the retreat of
Belgrade forces following the end of 11 weeks of NATO bombings.
     More than 250 Albanians were condemned, while 500 were freed for lack
of proof or after having served their prison terms. Some were exchanged
against Serbs detained by Albanians.

Story from AFP   Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
http://www.clari.net/hot/wed/dq/Qyugo-kosovo-trial.RuZd_AMR.html

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FREE SERBIA
16 ethnic Albanians convicted

March 28, 2000

	A district court in southern Serbia on Monday sentenced 12 Kosovo Albanians
to three years in jail each for attacking Serb police in Kosovo in 1998,
Beta news agency said. It said the court in Nis, Serbia's third largest
city, jailed the 12 as members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The 12
were accused of joining the KLA in the western Kosovo town of Glogovac in
1998 and were arrested on September 28, 1998.
	Many were arrested during March-to-June 1999 NATO bombing to halt Serb
repression of the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo. Human rights lawyers
say most are convicted on flimsy evidence. The Belgrade-based Humanitarian
Law Fund says 1,300 Kosovo Albanian prisoners remain in Serb jails.

http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeserb/news/e-utorak
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Trial of six Kosovo Albanians adjourned

March 30, 2000

BELGRADE, March 30 (AFP) - The trial of six Kosovo Albanians accused of
planning terrorism last year in Belgrade for the separatist Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), was adjourned Thursday, the independent news agency
Beta reported.
     The trial, which began in November, is to resume April 24, the agency
said.
     The six are accused of planning explosions throughout the Yugoslav
capital, while one of them is also charged with the murder of two Serbian
policemen during last year's Kosovo conflict.
     Five of six defendants have denied the charges. The sixth defendant is
being tried in absentia.

Story from AFP   Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
http://www.clari.net/hot/wed/cy/Qyugo-kosovo-trial.RxgU_AMU.html

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KOSOVAPRESS
Three persons released from Serbia jails

March 30, 2000

Prishtinë, March 30 (Kosovapress) - The Information Office of International
Red Cross in Prishtina has announced that had accompanied for Kosova the
three released prisoners from Serbia jails. Two persons were released from
prison Mitrovica e Sremit and one from prison Pozharevci. Two prisoners are
from Mitrovica and one from Gjakova.

http://www.kosovapress.com/english/mars/30_3_2000_2.htm

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KOSOVAPRESS
Five prisoners released

Drenas, March 30 (Kosovapress) - According to some reports from Drenas, that
last Sunday were released another five prisoners from the prison Pozharevci.
The prisoner Begë Istogu is from Polluzha, Mursel Hajdari is from Kodra and
Isa S. Morina, Sefedin R.Morina dhe Sadri M. Tërdeci are from Bletari. They
were arrested last spring during the Serb offensive.

http://www.kosovapress.com/english/mars/30_3_2000.htm

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ANEM'S WEEKLY REPORT ON MEDIA REPRESSION IN SERBIA
Ristic: I Wasn't Alone

March 18-24, 2000

SOKO BANJA, March 18, 2000 - "There was a positive aspect to my eleven
months in prison - you meet people you wouldn't come across otherwise, you
do things you wouldn't do and you think about things that would never cross
your mind under normal circumstances. Still, I wouldn't wish such an
experience on anyone" said TV Soko chief Nebojsa Ristic yesterday after 339
days in a Zajecar prison.
	Despite his prison experience and his release on parole, Ristic said that
he would resume work as TV Soko editor-in-chief, and continue his struggle
for democratic change in Serbia. "I didn't write in prison because I didn't
want anyone to control what I was writing, but I have remembered everything.
I won't forget it, but not because I've been in any way changed by this
experience. No, I'm just the same as I ever was. I knew I wasn't alone. Even
some of the guards told me I should keep on fighting because changes had to
take place in Serbia," said Ristic, adding that he had not been harshly
treated in prison and had been prepared for much worse conditions.

(...)

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HUMANITARIAN LAW CENTER COMMUNIQUE
Presevo Mayor Sentenced

March 31, 2000

	Riza Halimi, the mayor of Presevo, was yesterday given a three-month prison
sentence suspended for one year for allegedly obstructing a police officer
in the performance of his duty.  After a two-year trial, Judge Goran
Despotovic of the Presevo Municipal Court found Mayor Halimi guilty of
participating in an unannounced protest in Presevo on 5 March 1998 against
the mass killing in Drenica, Kosovo, and obstructing Dragan Mitic, the
deputy police chief, in maintaining law and order.  Mitic was in charge of
dispersing and arresting the protesters.
	None of the police officers who were called as witnesses against Halimi
confirmed the prosecution’s charge that he “caught the deputy police chief
by the elbow” and thereby committed the criminal offense of obstructing a
police officer in the performance of his duty.  In his testimony, Dragan
Mitic said he “spoke” with the Mayor, who arrived on the scene during the
police intervention, and when he proceeded to supervise implementation of
the order to disperse the demonstrators, Halimi “caught” him by the elbow
and asked to continue the conversation.  In describing the Mayor’s behavior,
Miti? used words such as “we spoke”, “he addressed me”, and “he explained to
me.”
	The prosecutor made no closing argument and was not present at the summing
up of the defense or the sentencing.  In his oral explanation of the
judgment, Judge Despotovi? said that the legal evaluation of the event
differed from the de facto situation.  Although he thus admitted that the
court’s decision was not based on the facts of the case, the judge attempted
to justify it by saying that the offense of which Halimi was convicted was
very broadly defined in the Law on Public Order and that practically any
action, even approaching an on-duty officer, could be treated as a criminal
offense.
	The Humanitarian Law Center considers that the judgment against the Presevo
mayor is illustrative of the situation in the country: the police are
untouchable and above the law.

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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Escaped Yugo anti-regime activist is alive and in hiding: press

March 31, 2000

BELGRADE, March 31 (AFP) - A Yugoslav anti-regime activist, who jumped jail
three weeks ago, is alive but hiding in Belgrade, the weekly Vreme newspaper
reported Friday, citing the fugitive.
     Bogoljub Arsenijevic, better known as "Maki", was sentenced in November
1999 to three years in prison for organising a protest against Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic in the central Serbian town of Valjevo, which
resulted in clashes with police.
     He escaped on March 7 from a civilian hospital in Belgrade where he was
undergoing a medical check-up.
     "I have not left Belgrade yet," Arsenijevic said in his written answers
to Vreme's questions.
     "I escaped from prison in order to speak and fight against Milosevic
through all possible means," he wrote, adding that he would use the
independent media to continue his struggle against the regime.
     Arsenijevic spoke out after his wife said she feared for his safety,
especially as he had been mistreated during his arrest.
     An artist turned politician, Arsenijevic founded the Civic Resistance
movement in Valjevo last July and led anti-Milosevic protests.
     Branches of the movement have sprung up in several towns across Serbia
and Arsenijevic told Vreme he planned to found a Civic Resistance branch in
Belgrade next week.
     He has an almost legendary rebel status in his hometown Valjevo and
throughout Serbia.
     Arsenijevic spent almost two months hiding out in several Serbian
villages last summer after he was warned that the police were about to
arrest him.

Story from AFP   Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
http://www.clari.net/hot/wed/bo/Qyugo-opposition.RUIB_AMV.html

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ARTICLE 19
Serbian independent media: Int. campaign launched

March 31, 2000

Prime Time For Freedom

	International Campaign for Defence of Independent Media And Free Journalism
in Serbia Journalists, publishers, broadcasters and press freedom groups
from around the world today launched a campaign - Prime Time for Freedom –
to defend independent media and journalists in Serbia who are being
victimised by the government of Slobodan Milosevic.
	The aims of the Campaign, which held its first crisis meeting in Brussels
today, are to defend independent media and to support professional
organisations currently under threat; to campaign vigorously against actions
by the Serb authorities to intimidate journalists; to launch a practical
programme of solidarity in defence of media; to seek repeal of the draconian
media laws and to replace them with a legal framework that will support
international standards of media freedom.
	International professional organisations supporting the campaign have
already committed funds to an action plan. They are seeking donations in
support of:

	a Media Assistance Fund to provide resources to keep the independent press
and broadcasting movement alive;
	a Solidarity Fund to provide humanitarian aid to journalists, media staff
and their families who are victimised by the authorities and;
	a special Legal Aid Fund to support court cases on behalf of media and
journalists facing prosecution and to help prepare texts for a new media
legal framework in line with international standards of regulation of
media..
	"The situation in Serbia has reached crisis point," said Aidan White,
General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists who, along
with the World Association of Newspapers, hosted today's campaign launch
meeting after appeals from within Serbia for help.
	Veran Matic, Director of the Independent Electronic Media Organisation in
Serbia (ANEM) and director the independent B2-92 radio station said that the
Campaign was urgently needed: "The media crisis is deepening. Urgent steps
are required to save independent journalism. There will be no hope for
democracy if the independent media are extinguished."
	"Independent journalism is under threat of extinction," said White, "the
government is using all forms of quasi-legal and economic sanctions to
silence independent voices. A hysterical campaign of vilification has been
launched against the independent press."
	Radomir Diklic, Director of BETA News Agency and President of the
Association of the Private Media said: "The situation for the press in
Serbia is so grave that we need a compehensive programme of solidarity.

Actions, not words are what count now."

The Prime Time For Freedom Campaign is launching a worldwide publicity
programme to highlight the crisis of independent media in Serbia and is
asking governments covered by the Stability Pact arrangement in South
Eastern Europe to provide special programmes that deal with the current
emergency in Serbia.
	Despite the refusal of the authorities to grant visas to independent media
supporters outside Serbia to visit Belgrade, the Campaign organisers still
hope for dialogue with government and official representatives.
	"We do not want confrontation," said Timothy Balding, Director General of
the World Association of Newspapers. "The issue of press freedom and respect
for human rights should be dealt with in open, honest and challenging
dialogue. We are ready to talk and to meet with anyone to help lift the
current intolerable pressure on our colleagues."
	Further information: International Federation of Journalists: +32 2 223 22
65
	The Prime Time for Freedom Campaign is supported by the following
organisations:

International Federation of Journalists
World Association of Newspapers
Committee to Protect Journalists
Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia
Media Resistance
Association of Independent Electronic Media Serbia
Association of Private Media Serbia
Human Rights Watch
European Broadcasting Union
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
ARTICLE 19
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
International Confederation of free Trade Unions
International Press Institute
World Press Freedom Committee
Journalists Unions in the Following Countries:
The Netherlands, (NVJ, Nederlandse Vereniging van Journalisten
Hungary, (Hungarian Association of Journalists, Hungarian Press Union)

The Campaign is supported by the following Donor Organisations:
	OSI Network Media Program=20
	Press Now, Amsterdam
Reply to:
	Ilana Cravitz, Communications Officer <ilana at article19.org>
ARTICLE 19, The International Centre Against Censorship 33 Islington High
St.
London N1 9LH UK;  Website: www.article19.org

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Additional updates of the Kosovar political prisoners, including those
sentenced, missing and released, may be found at:
http://www.khao.org/appkosova/appkosova-database.htm
http://www.khao.org/appkosova/appkosova-report0037.htm
http://www.khao.org/appkosova/appkosova-report0038.htm
http://www.khao.org/appkosova/appkosova-report0041.htm

Very useful statistics and update from ICRC on missing persons from Kosova
can be found at:
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/60c532db
df49f6878525688f006f80d4?OpenDocument

Archives of the A-PAL Newsletters may be found at:
http://www.khao.org/appkosova.htm

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