The Basic Court of Pristina said it had ordered 30 days of detention for three former prison guards suspected of war crimes during the Kosovo war of 1998-1999.
The Special Prosecutor’s document, seen by BIRN, said that Boban Tonic, a 59-year-old Kosovo Serb from Lipjan/Lipljan, Mirsad Ibro, a 56-year-old member of the Gorani minority from Pristina, and Nadica Cepkenovic, a 62-year-old Serb born in Skopje and now residing in Pozarevac in Serbia, “systematically mistreated Albanian prisoners” while working as guards at prisons in Pristina and Lipjan/Lipljan.
The suspects, in collaboration with other prison officials, allegedly tortured ethnic Albanian prisoners “with inhumane methods and with various means such as rubber batons, metal rods, kicks and punches … causing bodily harm.”
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