E/CN.4/1993/26 page 121 (a) Mikel Marku, a lawyer, former chairman of the Bar Association of Kosovo and the Bar Association of Yugoslavia, and his two nephews Xhon and Prend Marku were arrested on 31 October 1991 by the police while leaving Pec for the village of Stupe. On their way to police headquarters in Pec, they were beaten with rubber truncheons and rifle butts. The beatings continued in the police station for several hours and, as a result, Mikel Marku had to be taken to the hospital the following morning. He died on 11 November 1991. According to hospital records, head injuries had caused paralysis of the right side of the body. The autopsy report noted multiple post-traumatic injuries to the head, trunk and extremities; (b) Ali Haxhin, a refugee from Albania living in Kosovo, was arrested on 25 November 1991 by police and taken to Urosevac. The following day he was taken to Pristina prison where he died several hours later. On 27 November, his body, allegedly severely bruised and with several teeth broken, was returned to his family; (c) Rexhep Rifati, a journalist from Urosevac, was arrested on 28 November 1991 in Kamenoglava village. He was held in police headquarters in Urosevac for about six hours, questioned and brutally beaten with rubber truncheons by police officers; (d) Selim Qazimi, director of the primary school in Kamenoglava village. Because he allowed school premises to be used for a concert celebrating Albania's national holiday, he was arrested and beaten with truncheons at police headquarters in Urosevac; (e) Rrustem Sefedini, director of a secondary technical school in Urosevac until January 1991, was arrested on 4 October 1991 by members of the police who beat him so severely that they broke three of his ribs; (f) Ismet Krasniqi was arrested on 29 January 1992 at the primary school in Pec, taken to a police station and beaten. The following day he was examined by a doctor who found bruising to both buttocks, feet and hands as well as perforation of the left eardrum; (g) Amrush Avdimetaj, from Pec, was arrested on 3 October 1991. and after being taken to police headquarters in Pec, he was kicked and severely beaten with rubber truncheons about the head and body; Before (h) Ali (Rexhep) Kadrijaj, a worker from the village of Restovic in Decane commune. On 23 August 1991 he was pulled out of a bus on his way home by police who beat him because they claimed he had raised two fingers of his hand in a gesture they considered politically offensive; (i) Fadil Kralani was beaten by the police until he lost consciousness on 25 March 1992. The beating took place in the offices of the inspector responsible for issuing passports on the former premises of the bank of Kosovo, in Pec; (j) Jashar Sali Haxhiaj. On 3 September 1991 he was beaten by police who stopped him in Radavce while he was driving a lorry without a driving