How many women should be killed for the institutions of justice to open their eyes to”

Don't encourage the bully! “How many times are you going to kill us? The Women's Group Network has rejected the low sentences pronounced by justice institutions. The latter have sought help and take these cases seriously. During 2020 alone, six women were killed for what RGK called alarming figures.

Through symbolic action, since more than five are not allowed to be more, justice has been sought for each Kosovo woman who has experienced violence and, in tragic cases, has been killed by her husband. Five minutes of silence has been kept for the latter. The Women's Group Network has expressed indignation for the six women killed this year, demanding justice from each institution that carries this responsibility.

The anti-violence co-ordinator at the Gender Base at RGK, Ernjen Kurti, said women's murder figures for this year are alarming, adding that they are seeking assistance from all institutions.

For us this figure is extremely alarming and we are asking for all the justice institutions, especially we are here to ask the Prosecutor for help. Because we know that even the sentences for murder of women and domestic violence are received by courts, but we're looking for help before the prosecution to qualify acts as they have been decided, and deeds have been done. We've had cases of attempted murder and qualified as domestic violence. No, it's not domestic violence because attempted murder is a rate before the murder, and we're worried to the point that it doesn't even happen to kill”, she said.

For the Kosovo Women's Group Network, it is unacceptable to reduce the imprisonment from the life sentence to the 24 and a half years of Peter Rutlay. The latter had killed his wife, Valbonne, and his daughter two years earlier. According to them, Ndolcej had no extenuating circumstances that reduced the sentence for this work.

It was a double murder of his wife and daughter, so he would have to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Where is justice, we tell the relevant institutions, is justice only for men, is this state only of men? And how many women should be killed that the police, the court, the prosecution, all of these institutions open your eyes to me. These alarming figures should become the same as many other specifics that are in Kosovo and that become large, the same should echo domestic violence, and then the killings of women”, Kurti added.

Days earlier the Kosovo Women's Network ( S. The GK has reacted following the decision of the Gjakova Foundation Court to reduce the sentence for Peter Ndectane, to the brutal murder of his wife and daughter, in August 2018<8>