[Prishtina-E] FW: [RELEASE THE PRISONERS NOW!] MEMBER ACTIVITIES (05.09.2001-00:40:20)

[kosova at jps.net]

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http://www.bndlg.de/~dbein/APP/

Dear members of the email-action,

First of all I want to thank all of you, who have been busy in using the new
mail-system to support the albanian prisoners.
You do such a great job!

This is the statistic of member-activities so far:

MEMBER ACTIVITIES (05.09.2001-00:40:20)

393 Recipient / Marrës / Empfänger
1162 Emails / Email / E-Mail

679 Members / Anetareve / Mitglieder
52 Activ members / Anëtarëve aktiv / aktive Mitglieder


I would like to ask you all again, to participate, as often as you are able
to. It will be most impressive to our recipients (politicians, medias,
organisations all over the world), if they get the emails from many many
different senders.

If you have any problems with handling the new system, please don´t hesitate
to write back and ask/tell!

The prisoners need all your voices to not be forgotten!

Regards and thanks again for your support!
Divi Beineke

Ps.: we have a new email-text from Alice Mead as well, see below.

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EMAIL-ACTION: RELEASE THE PRISONERS NOW!
TË LIROHEN MENJËHERË TË BURGOSURIT!
LASST JETZT DIE GEFANGENEN FREI!
ODMAH OSLOBODITE ZATVORENIKE!
http://www.bndlg.de/~dbein/APP/



New letter

Open letter to politicians and media all over the world

Dear Ladies and Sirs,

Over two years after the end of the war in Kosova, 229 Albanians remained
detained in Serbian prisons. We are asking for their immediate transfer to
the UNMIK justice system. In June, 1999, 2,300 Albanians were transported
into Serbia
along with Serb judges from the courts in Kosova. However this action
violated their international human rights set out in UN Resolution 1244
which states:

- All rights and freedoms set forth in the European Conventions apply to
Kosova -Anyone arrested in Kosova shall be subjected to Kosova's courts (it
does not state that they shall be transfered to courts in Serbia, set up
unilaterally by Slobodan
Milosevic which is what happened).
- Neither side will prosecute anyone for crimes related to the conflict
- Defendant is entitled to have his trial transfered to a Kosova court of
his choice.

To summarize what has happened to date, of the 2,300 original prisoners:

* 1,800 were released because of bribes paid privately by families
* 1 was pardoned (Flora Brovina)
* 35 minors were released in November, 1999
* 400 were released through amnesty or review
* 100 criminal cases have not been processed
* 119 political cases should be dismissed due to gross violations of human
rights

It is time for international leaders to openly insist that the cases of the
Albanian prisoners be transfered to the UNMIK justice system. UNMIK now has
a Belgrade office, but it will take a unified international effort to
initiate this process and
to follow through. No one must be left behind.

Sincerely,



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