Dr Ejup Emina Statovci, a 51-year-old ethnic Albanian lecturer in law at the University of Pristina, was summoned to Pristina police station on 23 March 1993. At the police station he was arrested and taken to Pristina prison to serve the remainder of a 60-day sentence which he had started in January 1992 on charges allegedly connected to his writing to the Serbian Rector of Pristina University to request the resumption of education in Albanian. He was released after spending 11 days in prison because the Serbian Supreme Court had annulled the decision of the lower court. However, on 24 June 1992, the Supreme Court revoked the annullment. AI has adopted Dr Statovci as a prisoner of conscience.
