PRISTINA, Dec 29 (Hina) - An Albanian Serbia's authorities tried to accuse of alleged crimes against Serbs in Croatia's Bjelovar was released from a Belgrade military prison, the Pristina-based Kosovo Committee for the Protection of
Human Rights and Freedoms said on Sunday.
PRISTINA, Dec 29 (Hina) - An Albanian Serbia's authorities tried to
accuse of alleged crimes against Serbs in Croatia's Bjelovar was
released from a Belgrade military prison, the Pristina-based
Kosovo Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms
said on Sunday. #L#
Serb police arrested Saban Dragaj at a Montenegro-Bosnia border
crossing two weeks ago, immediately detaining him in the Belgrade
military prison.
Dragaj told the Kosovo Committee for the Protection of Human Rights
and Freedoms he had not been physically mistreated and that Serb
investigators attempted to charge him with alleged crimes against
Croatian Serbs in Bjelovar.
"Dragaj had no connection with that case whatsoever and he was
released after the investigation thanks to the mediation of the
Humanitarian Fund for Human Rights in Belgrade and the Kosovo
Committee for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms," the
Committee said in a statement.
Thousands of residents in the Kosovska Mitrovica region signed a
petition asking that Dragaj be set free.
Dragaj was an officer in the Yugoslav military who deserted after
the conflicts in the former Yugoslav federation began in the early
1990s. He joined the Kosovo Liberation Army and was one of its
commanders in the Drenica area. Now he is an administration worker
with the local U.N. mission's branch in Kosovska Mitrovica and a
member of the Kosovo Democratic Party presidency.
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