KOSOVA ACTION NETWORK - USA

SPONSORING WORLD WIDE RALLIES NOVEMBER 20, 1999

The Kosova Action Network has sponsored a world-wide rally to free the Kosovar Political Prisoners on November 20, 1999, the same day UN celebrates it's 10th anniversary for the Child Convention. We voice our concern for the adults, however, we are terribly disturbed by the

imprisonment and ill-treatment of the Kosovar children within the jails of Serbia.

The prisoners, many of them civilians detained without official charges were mainly arrested during the conflict, then hastily transferred from Kosovo to 13 different prisons in Serbia on June 10, 1999. Human rights groups say they have little chance of receiving due process or a fair

trial. They have been beaten and tortured and are held in inhumane conditions. The youngest of prisoners, besides a baby born in a cell to a twenty year old mother, is a five year old girl, imprisoned with her fourteen year old brother. There are over a dozen women and minors between the ages of thirteen and seventeen

[http://www.khao.org/appkosova-wmnmnr.htm].

Others include children, women, and men including doctors, professors, lawyers, and students as well as individuals involved in humanitarian and political activities, were illegally captured and sent to prisons within Serbia simply because they are ethnic Albanians.

There will be rallies in Alaska, California, Chicago, New York, Florida, Michigan, Texas, Utah, Albania, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Kosova, Sweden, Switzerland, Scandinavia

Everyone should participate. Show support and help release the Political Prisoners from their terrible situation. There will be petitions available to sign there as well and info sheets on how you can help towards their release.

Visit the Association of Political Prisoners - Kosova website for more information

www.khao.org/appkosova.htm

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For those of you in New York, the Rally info is:

PLACE: Front of United Nations (UN) Building

TIME: 11:00 a.m.

CONTACT: Naida Dukaj

[Tel: 714/478-3587; E-mail kosova@jps.net]