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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:17:51 -0800
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From: Teresa Crawford <tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Prizren Students Update--K.A.N.
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Dear Kosova Network friend---

Recently I received a letter from the lawyer who has been working with the
Prizren students, who were arrested last May.  Since our letter campaign
started this fall, the three girls have been released. The six young men,
however, are still in prison.

Their lawyer, Hazer Susuri, wrote to me about their current situation. 

The six men are in a prison in Nish outside of Kosova, and they are being
physically maltreated there as they were in Prizren. They are isolated and not
allowed to speak Albanian with their families. They are not allowed newspapers
or other materials in Albanian to read. The Serb officials say they are
dangerous people. For that reason, they are treated differently, in a hard and
rough way.

The main thing that these students need is for people to send food, money, and
clothing to their parents in Prizren to take to the students in jail. The
families cannot afford to visit often because Nish is so far and it is a
difficult trip to make during these times. It would be a good thing for
organizations to help them and advocate both for their release and for an
improvement in their conditions and treatment. They are in jail purely for
political reasons, not because they are criminals.

For further information, contact Mr. Hazer Susuri, avokat. Prizren. 
Tel--011-381-029-31-909

or Teresa Crawford at teresa at advocacynet.org

Kosova Action Update: from Alice....Dec...

This is a difficult time--the Christmas season--to inititate any action on the
students' behalf, so let's hold off and launch an all-out campaign again in
January, 1999. There is also a new video available done by Canadian
Broadcasting on an Albanian doctor in Kosova and how he was killed. It is
devastating and powerful. Again, I suggest that after Christmas, we develop a
set of ideas on how to spread this information as far as possible.

Thanks for your continuing interest, support, and determination.
Best wishes----
Alice Mead







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