Heavy: A 41-year-old woman from Gracanica died, beaten by her husband two days ago

A woman with M.Z. initials, from downtown Augusterica in Gracanica, has passed away on August 2nd at the Clinical Hospital Centre in Pristina after her husband had beaten her up with serious injuries.

Free Europe Radio Free Director Emergency Centre in Pristina Naser Syla has confirmed this.

Unfortunately, she changed her life this morning. She had a brain hemorrhage from severe injuries, and we couldn't operate on her. She was on machine 24 hours a day”, Syla said.

M.Z., born in 1983, had been transferred to Pristina by the Clinical Hospital Centre in Gracanica, where it was admitted in serious condition on the evening of July 31st.

Kosovo police have confirmed that her initial husband, D.Z.h. He's been stopped and he's been investigating the case.

Women's rights activist and director of the non-governmental organisation “Pravo us” from Gracanica , Milica Stojanovic, in a proposal for Radio Free Europe, shows that institutions have again failed when it comes to violence against women.

This tragic outcome has come just because institutions have not been dealt with enough with this problem. The worst part is that institutions are still silent. Police have long responded, the man has been sent to the hold, but it depends on other institutions what will happen”, Stojanovic said.

She said it is local institutions that should work for empowering women to denounce the bully in time, and that justice institutions should impose stricter penalties on the perpetrators.

“To prevent fine offenders from being released, the bully should never be released 24 or 48 hours after exercising violence”, she underlines it and adds that in such cases society should react, because violence is never “private issue”.

During April two women were shot by their husbands in a few days.

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani later called on security and justice institutions, civil society, citizens, women and men to work together to stop gender-based violence, “which stains our country and can destroy it from within”.

From 2010 to April 2024, 57 women have been killed in Kosovo.

In most cases, homicide authors were husbands, then fathers and sons.