Why Prisons Don't Surrender to Autopathies Report

In the “the annual report of the Health Department of Prisons for 2021” provided by the portal rtv21.tv, reportedly requested by the IML to be handed over to autopsy reports, but the same did not accept “confidence claims”.

“The DSB never receives final reports of autopsy from the Law Medicine Institute in the function of avoiding eventual shortcomings during treatment to reduce their mortality, undertake adequate measures and do not repeat eventual errors. We've been looking at the IML and we've been trying to formalise this into work documents, but the compatibility has not yet been reached on the pretext of privacy, in this case”, says the DSB report.

On the other hand, Deputy Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) Naim Uka has told the rv21.tv portal that they respond to the institution that orders the execution.

The Institute for Legal Medicine even in cases of autopsies for deaths in Kosovo prisons carried out standard procedures based on the ordinance issued by the State Prosecutor's Office. The Institute for Legal Medicine, respectively, responds through the autopsy report, the institution that orders autopsy (state prosecutor). The Health Department of Prisons should be directed at the request for the autopsy report State Prosecutor”, Uka said.

Rtv21.tv has also sent questions to the State Prosecutor, but the same has yet to be answered.

Prison deaths and suicides since 1999 have a linear growth trend. The death toll averages between 3 and 4 deaths per year, while suicides range from 1 to 2 per year.

Only last year have 9 people died in Kosovo prisons. Since 1999, 88 people have died in Kosovo prisons, of them 22 suicides.