Austria:Albanian asylum-seeker assaulted
01 January 1991
Austria:Albanian asylum-seeker assaulted
artdoc November=1995
"Austria: Albanian asylum-seeker assaulted in detention centre"
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 ballpoint 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 Amnesty'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 1995).
IRR European Race Audit, no 13, April 1995. Contact: Liz Fekete,
Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS.
Tel: 0171 837 0041