Kurti reacts to torturing citizens at the border: A day after Kosovo vote in KiE, Serbia retaliates against civilians

Prime Minister Albin Kurti has called Serbia's revenge on the vote in favour of Kosovo's membership in the KiE, the ban on more than 300 Kosovo citizens on the border Wednesday.

Serbian authorities have stopped buses with travellers from Kosovo today, at the borders with Croatia and Hungary.

The prime minister said banned citizens are deprived of treatment and food.

A day after the KiE Parliamentary Assembly voted in favour of Kosovo's membership in the Council of Europe, Serbia retaliates against Kosovo civilians. Since this morning, over 300 of our citizens, including children, have been held arbitraryly at the border, deprived of food and medicine. A serious violation of human rights!”, Kurti said.

Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora and the Kosovo Ministry of Internal Affairs urged citizens not to pass through Serbia “following the situation created at border points in Serbia and the arbitrary ban of Kosovo citizens at border crossings”.

All travelers pray to follow closely the tense security situation and not to travel through Serbia”, the joint announcement of MPJD and MPB.

Meanwhile, the MPJD, through a separate media report, said that a few hours after the Kosovo Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on April 16th supported Kosovo's membership, institutions have been announced that at Serbia's border crossing with Croatia in Batrovci, Kosovo buses, passing the transit, have been banned by Serbian border authorities. Also, the same situation is at the crossing in Schid.

Kosovo's “citizens who were coming towards Kosovo have also been detained at the border with Hungary, at the border checkpoint in Subotica, at the Dheu White border crossing [that connects Kosovo with Serbia] and are not being allowed to move forward, nor be returned after”, the MPJD said.

This minister said the travelers were receiving personal documents as well as bus documents.

Kosovo citizens are being fined in Merdara (Document)