In the Detention Centre in Northern Mitrovica are people who are sentenced to several years of imprisonment, which is not in accordance with the Kosovo Law on Enforcement of legal sanctions, but neither in accordance with international laws and norms. Director of the Detention Centre Milan Radojevic says that in this institution can serve only persons who have been sentenced up to three months in prison. “Detention Centre in Mitrovica is not the place where prisoners sentenced to long-term prison sentences should serve them. At the moment there are 11 prisoners who were sentenced on 5 years and more,” said Radojevic.
At the round table on the topic “Challenges in connection with the decision on detention in northern Kosovo,” which was organized by the NGO Advocacy Centre for Democratic Culture (ACDC), Radojevic said that there are the convicts who were sentenced to 22 years, 18 years and so on.
He stressed that even bigger problem could happen in autumn, when court in Northern Mitrovica should start working in full capacity. “The current prison capacity is 82 places, what certainly will not meet the needs in the future. According to the data of Municipal Court in Vucitrn / Vushtrri there are several thousand pending cases, and out of it for the 500 is expected imposition of the detention measure,” said Radojevic.
