E/CN.4/1993/26 page 122 licence. The following day he was examined by a doctor who found bruising to the area around the left eye and to the body, injuries to both arms, forearms and to the left thigh; (k) Enver Sinani, law graduate and local council employee from Resinovc village, Lipljan commune. He was arrested on 3 January 1992 and brutally beaten at a police station in Magura by police who accused him of possessing weapons and of being an opposition activist. As a result, he was reportedly unable to use his hands and walked with difficulty for several days afterwards; (l) Bajram Isuf Myrtezaj was arrested and severely beaten on 3 March 1992 in Pec by the police who were looking for his son; (m) Avdi Ulaj, a student of the Engineering Faculty of Pristina University, was arrested by police on 4 October 1991, together with several other students, after attending a protest meeting at the closure of courses in the Albanian language and the dismissal of ethnic Albanian university staff. He was taken to the police station in Muhaxher quarter, brutally beaten and subjected to sadistic mockery before being released. The medical report indicated inflammation of the cornea and conjunctiva, bruising around both eyes, swelling on sole of his left foot and traumatic rupture of eardrums; (n) Daut Krasniqi, a secondary school pupil from Vranoc, Pec commune, was arrested by police in Pec on 4 October 1991 and beaten until he bled because they apparently suspected him of hiding arms and ballot papers; (o) Faruk Muja, a 12-year-old Rom boy from the village of Magura, in Lipljan commune, was severely beaten by the police in April 1991, apparently because they suspected him of selling cigarettes on the black market in Pristina; (p) Mentor Kaçi, Sokol Dobruna, Zenel Sadiku, Delija Hagjocaj, Nuhija Bytyqi, Palusha Palushaj, Naim Krasniqi, Afrim Morina, Qerkina Peci, Sadik Mula and Sejdi Veseli were arrested in late December 1991 and taken to Pec prison where, according to witnesses, they were subjected to severe ill-treatment; (q) Zenun Celaj, member of the Executive Board of the Kosova Helsinki Committee in Pristina, and Ibro Osmani were arrested on 20 June 1992 at the police check-point just outside Peja and taken to the police station where they were severely beaten for two hours; 549. On 4 November 1992 the Special Rapporteur addressed a new letter to the Government informing it that he had been provided with a list of persons who were severely beaten by security forces while participating in rallies protesting discrimination against Albanian education, which were held in Kosova on 12 and 13 October 1992. These allegations concerned one person in Deçan, three persons in Dragash, three persons in Gjakovë, four persons in Istog, 140 persons in Klinë, three persons in Lipjan, three persons in Malisheve (Kijevë), 113 persons in Pejë, 27 persons in Prishtina and 34 persons in Prizen.

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