Journalist released

Serbia
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Human Rights Watch

21 August 1998

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(HRW/IFEX) – Musa Kurhasku, journalist with “Koha Ditore”, was released after seven hours in police detention on 19 August 1998. According to the “Koha Ditore” editorial staff, he was beaten while in custody. **Updates IFEX alert of 20 August 1998** The police reportedly warned Kurhasku that he would be arrested again if an ethnic Serb […]

(HRW/IFEX) – Musa Kurhasku, journalist with “Koha Ditore”, was released
after seven hours in police detention on 19 August 1998. According to the
“Koha Ditore” editorial staff, he was beaten while in custody.

**Updates IFEX alert of 20 August 1998**
The police reportedly warned Kurhasku that he would be arrested again if an
ethnic Serb kidnapped by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was not released
by 21 August, 7 p.m.

Kurhasku has gone into hiding.

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