[From nobody Fri Sep 28 16:27:28 2007 Return-Path: <a-pal-admin@alb-net.com> Received: from rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (rly-yc01.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.33]) by air-yc01.mail.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:09:36 -0400 Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [199.173.50.4]) by rly-yc01.mx.aol.com (v77_r1.36) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 15:09:14 -0400 Received: from alb-net.com (alb-net.com [199.173.50.4]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD4E8C10; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 15:08:59 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: a-pal@alb-net.com Received: from mail.maine.rr.com (smtp-server.maine.rr.com [204.210.65.65]) by alb-net.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50B208BFA for <A-PAL@ALB-NET.COM>; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:42:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [66.30.16.154] by mail.maine.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for <A-PAL@ALB-NET.COM>; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:45:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <v04220806b742d5fad7e7@[66.30.16.154]> To: A-PAL@ALB-NET.COM From: Alice Mead <amead@maine.rr.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1220356411==_ma============" Subject: [A-PAL] a-pal 6/05/01 Sender: a-pal-admin@alb-net.com Errors-To: a-pal-admin@alb-net.com X-BeenThere: a-pal@alb-net.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:a-pal-request@alb-net.com?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:a-pal@alb-net.com> List-Subscribe: <http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/a-pal>, <mailto:a-pal-request@alb-net.com?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Albanian Prisoner Advocacy List -- Prisoner Pals <a-pal.alb-net.com> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.alb-net.com/mailman/listinfo/a-pal>, <mailto:a-pal-request@alb-net.com?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.alb-net.com/pipermail/a-pal/> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:34:44 -0400 X-Mailer: Unknown (No Version) --============_-1220356411==_ma============ Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <excerpt><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger> =20 A-PAL STATEMENT </bigger></fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger> </bigger></fontfamily> JUNE 5, 2001 <excerpt> <fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>Unfortunately, as the second year anniversary of the transfer of Albanian prisoners into Serbia, approaches, we must continue to advocate for the immediate release of the remaining Albanians. We need political pressure from European leaders to obtain their freedom. One prisoner, Bedri Kukalaj, shot in the head at the Dubrava massacre, has recently written from Belgrade Central Prison, pleading for medical care. The Serb Supreme Court must release the remaining 135 Albanian political prisoners to comply with UN law, the Helsinki Accords, the Geneva Conventions, EU demands, the Yugoslav Constitution, UN 1244, and the Council of Europe's pact of protection of human rights. President Kostunica has not fulfilled his many promises to internationals to release the prisoners kept as hostages, tortured and deprived of liberty under the Milosevic regime. Now the Serbian Supreme Court justices, must demonstrate their independence from the brutal political agendas of Milosevic and release these 135 prisoners or they will continue to violate international law and the Yugoslav Constitution.=20 -<bold><underline>On June 29th, the FRY meeting of donors will be held in Brussels.-=20 </underline>1.**We urge all countries who are co-signers of these laws to withhold funding to the former Yugoslavia until the prisoners are released.** 2.** YUGOSLAVIA has now reentered the UN and OSCE. We urge those organizations to develop real consequences for Serbia's failure to release the Albanian prisoners in a timely fashion. Past experience has shown that without immediate consequences, compliance will not take place. 3.** The Council of Europe now has an office in Belgrade and Yugoslavia has indicated an interest in becoming a member. The Council of Europe needs to make the release of prisoners a priority with real consequences if their release continues to be delayed. 4.**Embassy diplomats, MEP staff, US legislative staff, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International need to take a much more public role in visiting the remaining prisoners, observing their appeals, and documenting on-going violations of basic humanitarian rights-such as adequate food, freedom from harassment and torture, adequate family visits,medical care, humanitarian releases (all of which have been denied so far). Serb humanitarian cases are equally neglected. 5.**The justices of the Serbian Supreme Court, nearly all of whom are holdovers from the Milosevic regime, need the closest level of outside monitoring. For example, the lack of international outcry over the recent<underline> Mazreku</underline> case and lack of demands for their release are a disgrace. High-visiblity cases, such as the Gjakova 143 or Dr. Flora Brovina, receive one level of attention. The Mazrekus, and hundreds like them, go ignored. 6. That OSCE appoint an independent investigation to report on the ongoing situation of the Albanian prisoners, to document cooperation and lack of regard for international norms and the Helsinki Accords. To demand appropriate action by the Serb Supreme Court in its "review" of cases. </bold></bigger></fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><big= ger><bold></bold></bigger></fontfamily> --============_-1220356411==_ma============-- ]