Another Serb detained at Konculj administrative crossing

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Wednesday a Serbian police officer from Strelica in the Kosovska Kamenica municipality, Kosovo-Metohija, had been detained at the Konculj administrative crossing earlier in the day on orders from Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

In a statement, the Office said the police officer, identified with the initials J A, was a family man and an honourable professional who was an employee of the police administration in Vranje, central Serbia, and that he had travelled between Kosovska Kamenica and Vranje without problems for years.

He was held at the administrative crossing and then transferred to a so-called deportation centre in Pristina, the statement said.

The Office said it had provided legal assistance to the man and would inform international representatives of the case - another illegal detention and expulsion of a Serb who is an employee of the Serbian Interior Ministry.

It is disgraceful that the entire international community remains silent in the face of unlawful persecution and expulsions of Serbs, whose fundamental human rights are being trampled and all their freedoms guaranteed by international conventions jeopardised, the Office said.

This is the fifth case of politically motivated persecution of Serbs in just days, it noted.

They are victims of politically motivated moves by the Pristina regime, which breaches even its own regulations when it wants to harm the Serbs, the Office concluded.