Selimi in High Security Prison: Prisoners Must Treat With Dignity

On the day of Kurban Bajrami, Justice Minister Selim Selim Selimi chose to visit prisoners in the Podujevo High Security Prison.

He was accompanied by the chief imam of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, Sadri Bajgora, and the director general of the Kosovo Correcting Service, Nehat Thaci.

Justice Minister Selim Selim Selimi said all prisoners who are committing their debt to society for criminal acts they committed must be treated with dignity.

He said that during these meetings with three groups of prisoners he heard all their demands.

On this day, to show that the state of Kosovo stems from its authority from the Constitution and Constitution, the constitution issues dignity as the basis for all other human rights. All of these persons who are paying their debt to society for the criminal acts they have committed should be treated with dignity and should be given the opportunity to commit this debt to our society as the Court has foretold. Apart from the punishment that is part of performing this debt, we should have the spiritual part or part of regret and it is the individual and essential part”, he said.

The head of the Islamic Community of Kosovo, Sadri Bajgora, said that through this visit on this particular day for Muslim believers, they have wanted to convey the message that at parties everyone is equal.

“It was a special emotion for all of us, but yet, as the minister said, this society has a duty to these people to offer the conditions for a dignified life even in prison, but always with orders that they reflect on their past by repenting of what they have done and I hope that these people after leaving this country will be worthy members of society... This party is that we are united today instead of our families we have chosen this place to convey to them the message that we are all equal at the party”, the chief imam stressed.

Kosovo Correcting Service General Director Nehat Thaci indicated that today's visit of evidence that Kosovo institutions have the obligation of the prisoners to rehabilitate and make ready for their future outside the bars.

The “was a truly clear message, it was a testimony which day-to-day we are witnessing that Kosovo institutions concretely, the Kosovo Correcting Service has the obligation that all prisoners here should rehabilitate and resocialise. One of the steps for their resocialisation and rehabilitation is to visit today”, he said. /B. Ibishi/