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Albanian asylum-seeker assaulted in detention centre

By Liz Fekete

1 April 1995

Amnesty International has taken up the case of a 22-year-old ethnic Albanian asylum-seeker from Kosovo who has made a criminal complaint of ill-treatment against officials at East Vienna detention centre where he was held in pre-expulsion detention in April 1994.

Naser Palushi, who deserted from the Yugoslav National Army in 1992, went on hunger-strike on being placed in detention following the rejection of his asylum application. He alleges that after he fainted in the toilet he was assaulted by police officers who dragged him into his cell and stabbed him behind the ears with a ball-point pen. 'I can't understand why' said Mr. Palushi. 'One of them hit me repeatedly in the face and kept saying "good morning" in Yugoslavian.'

Austrian authorities have not replied to AI's request for information as to what action is to be taken following Mr. Palushi's complaint.

AI Concerns in Europe: May/December 1994, AI Index EUR -01/01/95

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