KMDLNj: Sick people be sent home, not killed in prisons

J. Gjakova-born 2505.1965, convicted of serious murder and in suffering punishment in Dubrava Prison from the date 05.01.2009.

The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms under the mandate and agreement with the Ministry of Justice monitors the Kosovo Centres of Pre-election and Correcting Centres, as well as visits Kosovo citizens who are deprived of freedom in Albania and Northern Macedonia.

convict J. P, KMDLNj monitors have visited him several times, even at the invitation of convict J. Likewise, at the request of Kosovo Corresponding Service officials and the Hospital Service of Prisons for the fact that there has been an extremely serious health situation that has ended with fatality.

KMDLNY through a media communiqué, says the largest time convict, now the late J. P has passed it to the Hospital Unit of Dubrava Prison and, many times, has been sent for treatment at KKUK in Pristina, as well as to the Regional Hospital in Pec.

The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms has earlier demanded that convicts who are diagnosed with an unspoiled disease that have numbered days or weeks should be sent home and not die in prisons”, the KMDLNI points out.

For cases of death and deprivation of freedom and suffering from incurable diseases, KMDLNj did not hold the Hospital Prison Service responsible, nor the Kosovo Corresponsive Service, but addresses responsibility to institutions that have a serious lack of humanity by not allowing convicts to die at home and near their families.

For the last two deaths of convicts (in 30 days), all have known that death is a matter of days or hours. Why should they die in prison? To then make news and accuse the Kosovo Department of Prisons and Correcting Service? At a time when responsibility is elsewhere”, KMDLNj points out.