[Kcc-news] REMINDER: World-Wide Rallies Saturday, Nov 20, 1999 (fwd)

[Mentor Cana]

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     RELEASE THE KOSOVAR POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM SERBIA NOW!

                     Sign the petition at:
        http://www.khao.org/appkosova-petitionsign.htm
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                             PRESS RELEASE

                      KOSOVA ACTION NETWORK – USA

             SPONSORING WORLD WIDE RALLIES NOVEMBER 20, 1999

The Kosova Action Network has sponsored a world-wide rally to free the
Kosovar Political Prisoners on November 20, 1999, the same day UN
celebrates it’s 10th anniversary for the Child Convention.  We voice our
concern for the adults, however, we are terribly disturbed by the
imprisonment and ill-treatment of the Kosovar children within the jails
of Serbia.

The prisoners, many of them civilians detained without official charges,
were mainly arrested during the conflict, then hastily transferred from
Kosovo to 13 different prisons in Serbia on June 10, 1999. Human rights
groups say they have little chance of receiving due process or a fair
trial. They have been beaten and tortured and are held in inhumane
conditions. The youngest of prisoners, besides a baby born in a cell to
a twenty year old mother, is a five year old girl, imprisoned with her
fourteen year old brother.  There are over a dozen women and minors
between the ages of thirteen and seventeen
[http://www.khao.org/appkosova-wmnmnr.htm].

Others include children, women, and men including doctors, professors,
lawyers, and students as well as individuals involved in humanitarian
and political activities, were illegally captured and sent to prisons
within Serbia simply because they are ethnic Albanians.

There will be rallies in Alaska, California, Chicago, New York, Florida,
Michigan, Texas, Utah, Albania, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany,
Kosova, Sweden, Switzerland, Scandinavia

Everyone should participate.  Show support and help release the
Political Prisoners from their terrible situation.  There will be
petitions available to sign there as well and info sheets on how you can
help towards their release.



 Visit the Association of Political Prisoners - Kosova website for more
                              information
                       www.khao.org/appkosova.htm

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            For those of you in New York, the Rally info is:

            PLACE:    Front of United Nations (UN) Building
                           TIME:   11:00 a.m.
                        CONTACT:    Naida Dukaj
               [Tel: 714/478-3587; E-mail kosova at jps.net]