Albin Kurti and VV Doing the Torturing Now

How can we forget the death of Astrit Dehari the Vetevendosje activist, who died in a Prizren jail in 2016. It was horrific at the time and once Vetevendosje gained power we thought it would never happen again.

Well we were all wrong as now it is now Albin Kurti that is committing the the crime of torture. Not by imprisoning an activist, but by imprisoning a woman that has committed no crime, other than wanting to gain citizenship at a time when most Kosovars are fleeing the country in droves.

Sitora came travelled to Kosovo after the war to help people and has remained now for 23yrs. She has worked of various companies and has a degree in pharmacy. Her most recent job was translating for the Afghan refugees that were being processed in Kosovo. She left that job to do a nursing degree, so she could work in a hospital in Prishtina to help people. Every other student on the course, only did it to leave and work in Germany. Sitora was the only person that wanted to stay.

The department has told the media that Sitora cannot get citizenship, because she comes from Tajikistan, but she took her case to the Ombudsperson in 2015 and they ruled that she was discriminated against and ordered the department give her a 5yr permanent residency card, so she could apply for citizenship.

Between completing her nursing course and picking up her diploma, she was called to the immigration for what she thought was to take a citizenship test. When she arrived they took her permanent residency card which still has 1yr left on it and told her that her citizenship was denied. They told her she would now be deported. Even though she still has a year's residency, an apartment which has been her home for for 23yrs and a car, they put her in detention with nothing. Stopping her of all her personal effects, money jewellery and phone. Where she has been held for over 2 months.

Sitora's health is now deteriorating, she has been sick for weeks and cannot keep food down without vomiting. All they give her to eat is a dried sausage and potato. She is now worried she is going to die in the detention centre. She is now just skin and bone and will die there if nothing is done.

The immigration department told her lawyer that she was sent there as revenge for her taking them to court in 2015. When Fitim Qerimi visited her to offer her a deal, of buying her own flight and leaving, she told him she had done nothing wrong and would fight her innocence in court. He then told her that she will not win because they control all the lawyers in Kosovo and they will do as they are told and say what they are told to say.

After putting Sitora in detention illegally, the immigration party sent a story to the press to cover their actions by accusing her of being a Russian Spy. They did not tell Sitora this or even accuse of this and the first she heard of it was from the media story. This was an excuse from the department to cover their backs. If this were true whey didn't they accuse her of it or even charge her with it. The department then stopped any journalist from interviewing Sitora to find out the truth from her, without getting permission first from the department that put her there. They do not want the truth of their crimes known.

This is going right up to the European Court of Human Rights, which will show Kosovo as not the victim but as the perpetrator.

It is unbelievable that the Vetevendosje party can do this act of torture to an innocent woman, after what they went through in the past.

At a time when countries around the world are crying out for nurses, Kosovo deports them just to satisfy a man's broken ego that he was found guilty by the Obudsperson court, in a country that victimises women.

If they kill Sitora in this detention centre then Albin Kurti will have blood on his hands.