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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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