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Sarajevo is not your city, Mr Karadzic, but mine

02 March 2010 | By Nidzara Ahmetasevic

Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.


Feith: ICJ Opinion May Ease Tensions
09 March 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Pieter Feith, the head of the International Civilian Office in Kosovo, said that the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence could help alleviate tense relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Belgium Sends Back Asylum Seekers
10 March 2010 | Nikola Lazic

Belgium intends to begin sending back asylum seekers from Serbia and Macedonia this week. The first bus, carrying 44 passengers, left Brussels this morning.

Lalovic and Skiljevic: High Standards of Medical Treatment in Kula
11 March 2010 |

Slavko Zdrale, former Director of Kasindol hospital, says there was a dispensary which applied "high standards" in Kula Penal and Correctional Facility, adding that prisoners were taken to hospital if necessary.



Massive Albania Jailbreak Thwarted

| 07 April 2008 |
 

Tirana _ Albanian police claim to have a thwarted a huge jailbreak by some of the country’s most notorious criminals.

The plan appears to come to light when two prisoners, Pashk Leshi and Fran Marashi, both serving life sentences for multiple murder, escaped from the country’s high security prison in Burrel, in northern Albania, by sawing off the bars of their cells.

They were caught just thirty minutes later.

However their failed attempt apparently revealed a plan for the jailbreak of more than 75 other prisoners.

The security mishap has already landed Prison Director, Eduard Brahimlika, four of his aides and two correctional officers, behind bars.

Prison officials in Burrel had discovered a previous attempt a month ago to saw off the bars, however after welding them again the incident went unreported to higher authorities of the prison system and the prosecutor’s office.

Burrel high security prison hosts Albania’s most dangerous criminals. Most of them are serving life sentences for murder and other serious crimes.

Some of the convicts jailed there are linked to the armed bands of criminals that terrorised the population in the period of lawlessness and anarchy that followed the collapse of a series of pyramid financial schemes in 1997, which left hundreds of thousands of investors bankrupt.



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