(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 7 June 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: Kosovar Albanian Journalist Beaten But Safe A Kosovar Albanian journalist reported arrested last week has turned up in Albania, beaten but safe, Human Rights Watch has confirmed. Mr. Cerkin Ibishi, a long-time journalist, was reported missing last week by his newspaper, […]
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 7 June 1999 Human Rights Watch press
release:
Kosovar Albanian Journalist Beaten But Safe
A Kosovar Albanian journalist reported arrested last week has turned up in
Albania, beaten but safe, Human Rights Watch has confirmed.
Mr. Cerkin Ibishi, a long-time journalist, was reported missing last week by
his newspaper, Rilindja. A May 28 letter from the paper’s office in
Switzerland said that Ibishi was being held in Smerkovnica prison near
Mitrovica.
Mr. Ibishi arrived in Albania on May 30. He had been arrested near Mitrovica
in the first week of May and then spent time in two different prisons. A
journalist who spoke with Mr. Ibishi in Albania told Human Rights Watch that
he had been beaten while in detention.
Hundreds of other men have been released from Smerkovnica prison over the
past ten days and entered Albania – many of them showing physical signs of
abuse and torture.
