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New stone throwing incidents in Sweden, possible cash boosts for students and Denmark moving forward with a prison agreement with Kosovo are among the main ...

It follows an agreement in principle between the two countries late last year. As such, adaptation and renovation of the Kosovan prison facility will take place before the deal becomes active. Danes themselves are responsible for a large proportion of the increase with many people deciding to holiday domestically.

Danish authorities had initially announced plans to rent prison cells in the small Western Balkan country in December.

They are expected to be moved to a facility in Gjilan — 50 kilometres from the capital Pristina — at the start of 2023. During the same period, the number of prison guards in the country fell by 18%, according to national statistics. The prisoners that will be sent to Kosovo are foreign detainees who are due to be deported after their sentences.

On the day commemorating missing persons from the independence war, justice remains sought for the fate of over 1,600 people still missing since 1998-1999.

Even 23 years after the war, we are continuing as a society, but the families of these people are still waiting to know what happened to their loved ones,” she said. Our call for justice will be in place until the perpetrators of crimes appear before it, and the fate of each of our people is revealed. More must be done to ensure justice and closure for these families and those they lost,” he wrote on Twitter. Optio, possimus obcaecati repellendus minus ut voluptatum laboriosam, neque fuga velit! We want and will insist on knowing their fate,” the President added. On the day commemorating missing persons from the independence war, justice remains sought for the fate of over 1,600 people still missing since 1998-1999.

As Kosovo marks its national day of missing persons, commemorations and memorials for civilians who disappeared or died during and after the 1998-99 war ...

But his gesture, as a former Kosovo Liberation Army leader, was not welcomed by some of the families of the Serb victims. Based on the records of Kosovo’s Agency for Managing Memorials, a total 1,166 memorials have been built by families, municipalities and veterans’ associations. “Commemorative practices are focused only on crimes committed by members of other ethnic communities, as well as the division of victims according to ethnicity,” Shabiu explained. “Unfortunately, politicians still use commemorative activities for their own agenda. “Ethnocentrism and politicisation, as well as the division of victims according to ethnicity, are the main features of current commemorative practices in the region,” Marigona Shabiu, the head of the Pristina-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO, told BIRN. Recently-published research by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights about on commemorative practices in the Balkans concluded that as well as ethnocentrism and politicisation, the denial of crimes committed against other ethnic groups is also commonplace.

“We have now signed a ground-breaking agreement that will ensure better capacity in our overcrowded prisons and will ease the pressure on our prison officers,” ...

By 2020, around 350 prisoners were due to be deported after completing their sentences in Danish prisons. The foreign prisoners will be deported after serving their sentence. The inmates will be sent to a prison in Gjilan town — about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the capital Pristina — starting from early 2023.

Denmark signed an agreement with Kosovo on Wednesday (April 27th) to bring 300 prisoners to Kosovo in a bid to reduce overcrowding in Danish prisons.

They are expected to relocate to a facility in Gjilan in early 2023. Denmark signed an agreement with Kosovo on Wednesday (April 27th) to bring 300 prisoners to Kosovo in a bid to reduce overcrowding in Danish prisons. Denmark Approves Agreement to Send 300 Prisoners to Kosovo