The court stopped MP Kadai-Bujupi from communicating with the family, KMLDNJ reacts

The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (KMDLNJ) has issued media reports concerning the ban that was made to MP Donika Kadaj-Bujupi for telephone communication with her family.

The KMDLN explains that during its stay in the detention centre and with the status of the detained is not the responsibility or competence of the Para-burg Centre giving or withholding permission for phone conversations to detained persons, but that this is the exclusive competence of the Court or Judges that handles the subject.

Read KMDLNY's full announcement:

For the detainees, the Court allows or denies the right to phone conversations.

After a tip that MP Donika Qadaj Buyup, now detained at the Railing Center in Lipjan, is not allowed to communicate by phone with the family, KMDLNj has requested information and clarification from the director of this centre if the detained is being handled in accordance with the Law for Execution of Criminal Sanctions.

In response to the director's official response, Heset Locku is said to be to the detainee and to be strictly applied to all of the LSP's provisions for dealing with detained persons and that pre-priced persons there are no remarks, requests or complaints for her treatment except for restrictions on communication with the family by telephone that are located in this centre and which is in the use of persons deprived of freedom if these have this right to be ruled out when they have restrictions from the judge of the preliminary procedure.

Always in QKL response KMDLNY, pre-prisoned Donika Kadaj Buyip, has been admitted to this centre with the date 24.11.2017 and the same day, according to procedures, the QKL has introduced the Constitutional Court in Pristina to demand that the detainee be allowed phone conversations with its family and that this request has been rejected by the Constitutional Court the same day.

In 27,11,2017, the detained Donika Cadaj Buyipy was again admitted to the QKL, and this centre has reassembled the request to allow phone talks with her family but that she was again rejected by the Constitutional Court.

The KMDLNI explains about the opinion that while staying at the detention centre and with the status of the detained is not the responsibility or competence of the Para-burging Centre giving or withholding access to phone conversations to detained persons, but that this is the exclusive competence of the Court or Judges dealing with the subject in which or involving the person or persons under investigation, who have been charged or who are being tried. The detention or detention centre is obliged to implement the Court's ruling and in concrete cases cannot be spoken of as violating the human rights of persons deprived of freedom from the correct Centre in Lipjan because the Constitutional Court has made restrictive decisions on telephone conversations.

KMDLNj, based on the monitoring that they did in this Center, finds that treatment is good and in full accordance with the Law for Execution of Criminal Sanctions despite the objective difficulties this centre faces in particular, as well as the Correcting Service, in general. These conditions and difficulties also affect the work of corrective staff, which in less than a few cases works under difficult conditions that affect work efficiency.

KMDLNI reiterates the request to ensure better working conditions for the correctional staff, administration workers and other staff within the Kosovo Correcting Service