RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 216, Part II, 7 November 2000
SERBIAN INMATES' REVOLT SPREADS TO THIRD PRISON. Serbian
prisoners demanding better treatment and inclusion in an
anticipated amnesty staged a riot on 6 November, prompting
revolts in other prisons, AP reported. The first riot had
begun the previous day in Sremska Mitrovica, in northern
Serbia, and spread to a prison in Nis and a jail near
Pozarevac. Prisoners started several fires and took over
sections of the institutions. Officials from Serbia's Justice
Ministry are to meet with the prisoners and discuss their
demands, which reportedly include that Serbian prisoners be
among those granted freedom in an amnesty expected to apply
to ethnic Albanians imprisoned in Serbia after being taken
from Kosova. PB
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