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CONCERNS in EUROPE January - June 2002 CONCERNS IN EUROPE January - June 2002 FOREWORD This bulletin contains information about Amnesty International’s main concerns in Europe between January and June 2002. Not every country in Europe is reported on: only those where there were significant developments in the period covered by the bulletin. The five Central Asian republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are included in the Europe Region because of their membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). This bulletin contains an index on page 83 about cases and incidents investigated by Amnesty International affecting women and children. They are not an exhaustive summary of the organization’s concerns, but a reflection of the range of violations suffered by women, children and juveniles in Europe. In addition, there is also an index reflecting discrimination based on race, and the effects of the attacks of 11 September in the USA. A number of individual country reports have been issued on the concerns featured in this bulletin. References to these are made under the relevant country entry. In addition, more detailed information about particular incidents or concerns may be found in Urgent Actions and News Service Items issued by Amnesty International. This bulletin is published by Amnesty International every six months. References to previous bulletins in the text are: AI Index EUR 01/06/97 Concerns in Europe: January - June 1997 AI Index EUR 01/01/98 Concerns in Europe: July - December 1997 AI Index EUR 01/02/98 Concerns in Europe: January - June 1998 AI Index EUR 01/01/99 Concerns in Europe: July - December 1998 AI Index EUR 01/02/99 Concerns in Europe: January - June 1999 AI Index EUR 01/01/00 Concerns in Europe: July - December 1999 AI Index EUR 01/03/00 Concerns in Europe: January - June 2000 AI Index EUR 01/001/2001 Concerns in Europe: July - December 2000 AI Index EUR 01/003/2001 Concerns in Europe: January-June 2001 AI Index EUR 01/002/2002 Concerns in Europe: July - December 2001 Amnesty International September 2002 AI Index: EUR 01/007/2002 2 Concerns in Europe: January - June 2002 severe bruising and possibly broken ribs. He was A L B A N I A subsequently charged with having resisted arrest. Although a local prosecutor on 12 April signed an order Allegations of torture and ill-treatment for his examination by a forensic expert, nearly two weeks later this had still not taken place. He has since There were further allegations that detainees had been reportedly filed a complaint about his ill-treatment. The ill-treated by police; in some cases the ill-treatment was third brother Gjokë Përgjini was arrested later on the so severe as to amount to torture. AI’s concerns were evening of 5 April, but was subsequently released. The set out in a report issued in May: Albania: Alleged Ill- three brothers, local opposition party activists, claimed treatment of Detainees, AI Index: EUR 11/006/2002. that their arrest was politically motivated. The Albanian On the evening of 5 March Sabaudin Çela from Ombudsman’s Office investigated these complaints, Vlora in southern Albania was returning from work and concluded that all three brothers had indeed been when the Chief of Crime Police of Vlora police station ill-treated. (Z) and another man allegedly forced him into a car at On 12 May a police officer and two or more gun-point. They drove him to the outskirts of the city civilian companions are reported to have assaulted and where they and five or six other men in civilian clothes beaten Ymet Xhuti, against whom the police officer beat him until he lost consciousness. It appears they allegedly held a grudge, near Lake Prespa in south- believed he had information about two men suspected eastern Albania. Ymet Xhuti lost consciousness, and of murder who had escaped from detention. After he after his assailants left, friends took him to hospital in regained consciousness, they questioned him. When he Korça, where he was admitted to the intensive care told them he knew nothing, they allegedly hit him with unit. He had injuries to his head and to an ear, severe pistol-butts and truncheons and burned him with bruising on his face and body, and a leg injury. The cigarettes. They later left him in the street, where a police officer was shortly afterwards arrested, charged neighbour found him and took him to hospital. A and suspended from service. Arrest warrants were representative of AI and the director of a local human issued for two of his companions. rights organization visited him in hospital on 7 March and found that he had severe bruising on his back, head Investigation of allegations and legs; he also had marks on his body which of police ill-treatment appeared to be consistent with his allegations that he had been burned with cigarettes. Z was suspended In May trial proceedings before a court in Saranda from service on 7 March, arrested on 9 March and on started against a police officer accused of having 12 March remanded in custody on charges of torture. severely ill-treated in June 2000 an 11-year-old boy Arrest warrants were issued for three of his whom he wrongly suspected of theft. The officer was companions, on the same charges. Sabaudin Çela also alleged to have beaten the boy with a truncheon, cut his alleged that he had previously, in February, been arm with a knife and burned his body with a cigarette. detained for questioning in connection with the same The local prosecutor had previously dismissed the case, murder and on this occasion had also been ill-treated. but as a result of the repeated intervention of the Three brothers, Dedë, Zef and Gjokë Përgjini were Ombudsman investigation proceedings were reopened, arrested on 5 April by police in the town of Lezha resulting in the indictment of the police officer. AI had (north of Tirana) and reportedly severely ill-treated at earlier called on the authorities to ensure that the rights the local police station. According to their account, of the accused - including the right to the presumption they were arrested in reprisal for a dispute involving of innocence - and those of the victim, be respected, in police officers and some relatives of theirs earlier that accordance with international standards for fair trial. day. At about 10pm police officers carried out a search The organization also urged the authorities to guarantee at a bar and found a pistol belonging to Zef Përgjini, the protection of children in custody and to ensure that whom they arrested. He has alleged that at the police those who violate their rights do not benefit by station he was beaten, causing injuries to his leg. When impunity.1 The trial had not concluded by the end of his brother Dede Përgjini went to the police station to make inquiries, he too was arrested, and was reportedly beaten, as a result of which he allegedly sustained 1AI Index: EUR 11/004/2002 AI Index: EUR 01/007/2002 Amnesty International September 2002 Concerns in Europe: January - June 2002 3 June 2002. water in their cells which made it impossible to clean In April a Tirana procurator reportedly stopped the toilets and aggravated already poor hygienic proceedings against a former Elbasan police chief who conditions. It was also reported that in March there was being investigated on charges of having, together were 204 prisoners in this prison, which has a capacity with a relative, also a police officer, beaten and kicked for 130, and that at times as many as 240 prisoners Naim Pulahu, a taxi driver on the evening of 26 were held there. Overcrowding meant that convicted December 2001. Naim Pulahu was admitted to hospital prisoners sometimes could not be transferred to with injuries; the next day the two officers allegedly prisons, causing overcrowding in police cells. In May dragged him out of bed, struck and threatened him until detainees in Rrëshen police station in Mirdita district medical staff intervened. The police chief was went on a protest hunger strike. According to a press dismissed following this incident. The decision to stop report, 31 detainees, including convicted prisoners, proceedings was reportedly based on his alibi that on were held in six cells intended for two, or at most the evening in question he was attending a local beauty three, detainees, measuring 2.40 x 1.20m. A new queen contest. However, the Procurator General ruled prison was opened at Rroghozhina, but as Albanian that the investigation should continue. The relative was prisoners convicted in Greece began to be transferred charged with “arbitrary acts”. to Albania, the problem of insufficient prison capacity appeared not to have been solved. Arbitrary detention in connection with attack on World Trade Centre Failure to implement Albania’s obligation to in New York on 11 September 2001 report to human rights treaties’ bodies On 6 February police arrested Ilir Hajrullai, aged 22, at In March, the Ombudsman presented his annual report home in Ferras (Fier), reportedly without an arrest to parliament. The report urged the Albanian authorities warrant. He was not informed of any charges against to ensure that Albania fulfilled its duty to report to him and neither he nor his family were informed as to United Nations bodies charged with monitoring the where he was being taken. On 7 February he reportedly implementation of human rights treaties to which learned that he had been charged with “collaboration Albania is party. Albania has yet to submit reports to with a terrorist organization”; several days later he was the UN Committee against Torture, due in 1995 and remanded in custody by a court.
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