HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST EVICTIONS, POLICE BRUTALITY

ZAGREB, Sept 16 (Hina) - Representatives of human rights organisations today held a press conference in front of Parliament House to protest against the eviction of Vesna Bernardic and police brutality during the eviction of a refugee family, the Dizdars, from their Zagreb flat. Vesna Bernardic, human rights activist, has been on a hunger strike in front of Parliament House for three days. Chairman of the Citizens Human Rights Committee, Zoran Pusic, said the Committee was taking the matter to the Constitutional Court. He also called for a temporary human-rights court to be set up. Orhideja Martinovic, from the Croatian Helsinki Committee, supported Bernardic's hunger strike and called for a moratorium on evictions. She said a joint commission of parliamentary members, Government ministers, Defence Ministry representatives and Opposition Members should be set up to deal with the problem. Danica Crnobrnja, representative of the Dom Association of Citizens Threatened with Eviction, also insisted that evictions should stop and the former JNA-army flats put on sale with the others. She said the Minister of the Interior should be called to account for the police using force against human rights activists during the eviction of the Dizdar family yesterday. (hina) mm as sd 161617 MET sep 94