Physician Dr Natasa Popovic from Pristina spent 72 hours in the KFOR prison in Lipljan. Last Tuesday, five KFOR soldiers, led by their translator, a teenaged girl, burst into her house, pulled her out of the bed in a nightshirt, handcuffed her and took her in an armored vehicle to the prison.
"I requested to be put in contact with higher KFOR officers and given an ethnic Serb translator. However, the only reply was that no one speaks the Serb language better than their translator Elonora [an ethnic Albanian translator]. I do not know what I signed and what is written in my statement from the interrogation. As soon as I signed the statement, I was sent to the prison in Lipljan from where, thanks to the intervention of the embassies in Belgrade, I was released on Saturday," says Natasa Popovic and claims that it is not true that there are not Serbs in prisons.
"I talked to Dragan Ristic who was, also after ten days spent in prison, released on Saturday, together with Dragan Romic, and Nenad Radulovic, brother of the murdered technical director of the Serbian Postal and Telephone service Zoran Radulovic. Dragan Jovanovic from Kosovska Mitrovica is still in jail, because he was framed for a murder. On his behalf I appeal to all the people to help because he does not have enough money to pay to be interrogated in the presence of an ethnic Serb translator," says Natasa. Their lawyer Zivojin Jokanovic says for Blic that his office has received the lists of all the prisoners, except from the zone controlled by the British troops.
"I requested to be given indictments and list of locations where the imprisoned Serbs are held, but that was useless," says Jokanovic and adds that because of that he has sent a letter to General Jackson and De Mello to issue an order to the British troops to fulfill their obligation, since Mr. Jokanovic has been appointed by the UNMiK as a legal representative of all imprisoned Serbs.
Jokanovic emphasizes that Dragan Jovanovic is in jail only because he signed a murder confession in French without realizing what he was signing. Jokanovic emphasizes that there are many similar cases.