Albanian court dismisses case against CoE rapporteur

A court in Tirana has dismissed a case brought by an Albanian citizen Imer Brama against Swiss Senator and CoE Rapporter Dick Marty.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 08.06.2011.

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A court in Tirana has dismissed a case brought by an Albanian citizen Imer Brama against Swiss Senator and CoE Rapporter Dick Marty. Imer Brama sued Marty saying that he cited his house as the location where members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) killed Serb prisoners and harvested their organs for illegal trade. Albanian court dismisses case against CoE rapporteur The report, adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) in January, says the KLA took Serb prisoners to two houses in Albania which were converted into improvised hospitals, where they were killed and their organs taken to be sold afterwards. Local reporters said that one of the houses was owned by the Brama family and located in a village 25 km away from Tirana. The family filed charges against Marty and the local newspaper called MAPO, which identified the house. According to Imer Brama, the family wished to be paid EUR 200,000 in compensation for the damage done to their reputation, even though Marty had not mentioned their name explicitly, as it was in fact done by the newspaper. Marty's report contains serious allegations against ethnic Albanian leaders in Kosovo and the Albanian authorities, which were rejected by both. Serbia proposed that the UN Security Council form an independent team of experts who would get to the bottom of what happened in Kosovo and the two houses in Albania during the late 1990s, while some western countries insist the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, was capable of carrying out the probe. The organ trafficking case was first brought to light by former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in her autobiography published in 2008. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution is also investigating the allegations, in a case known informally as the Yellow House - after one of the location in northern Albania believed to have been used to commit the atrocities. Dick Marty (Tanjug, file)

Albanian court dismisses case against CoE rapporteur

The report, adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) in January, says the KLA took Serb prisoners to two houses in Albania which were converted into improvised hospitals, where they were killed and their organs taken to be sold afterwards.

Local reporters said that one of the houses was owned by the Brama family and located in a village 25 km away from Tirana.

The family filed charges against Marty and the local newspaper called MAPO, which identified the house.

According to Imer Brama, the family wished to be paid EUR 200,000 in compensation for the damage done to their reputation, even though Marty had not mentioned their name explicitly, as it was in fact done by the newspaper.

Marty's report contains serious allegations against ethnic Albanian leaders in Kosovo and the Albanian authorities, which were rejected by both.

Serbia proposed that the UN Security Council form an independent team of experts who would get to the bottom of what happened in Kosovo and the two houses in Albania during the late 1990s, while some western countries insist the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, was capable of carrying out the probe.

The organ trafficking case was first brought to light by former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte in her autobiography published in 2008. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution is also investigating the allegations, in a case known informally as the Yellow House - after one of the location in northern Albania believed to have been used to commit the atrocities.

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