(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 15 June 1999 Human Rights Watch press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 26 April, 26 March, 25 March, 23 March and 22 March 1999** NEWSPAPER KOHA DITORE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR SAFE IN KOSOVO (New York, June 15, 1999) – The Albanian-language newspaper Koha Ditore reported today that its publisher, […]
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a 15 June 1999 Human Rights Watch press
release:
**Updates IFEX alerts of 26 April, 26 March, 25 March, 23 March and 22 March
1999**
NEWSPAPER KOHA DITORE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR SAFE IN KOSOVO
(New York, June 15, 1999) – The Albanian-language newspaper Koha Ditore
reported
today that its publisher, Veton Surroi, and the editor of its English
edition, Dukagjin Gorani, are safe and sound in Pristina. Mr. Surroi, who
was a member of the Albanian delegation in Rambouillet, France, spent the
past eleven weeks in Pristina. He is now under the protection of British
NATO forces.
Koha Ditore was the largest and most influential Albanian-language newspaper
in Kosovo. On March 24, the Serbian police shot and killed the guard at the
newspaper’s office in Pristina, and then ransacked the office. The paper
resumed publication on April 22 out of Tetovo, Macedonia. Yesterday
distribution began in Albania (10,000 copies) and into Kosovo (more than
2,000 copies).
