British man, 53, is 'wrongly' detained in 'hellhole' prison for WAR CRIMES ... trends now
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A severely ill British man is being 'wrongly' detained in a 'hellhole' Serbian jail accused of war crimes after being held during a mass arrest at a border crossing, his family claim.
Sadik Duraku, 53, originally from the Kosovan village of Demjan, was held while driving over the border from Croatia at Batrovci to visit family last week.
He was hauled before the High Court for War Crimes in Belgrade and accused of membership of the Kosovan Liberation Army (KLA) and committing outrages during the 1999 war in Kosovo.
His family say that is impossible because he was in Britain applying for asylum by 1998 and did not leave the country again until 2004.
Critics have accused authoritarian Serbian president Aleksander Vucic of a political stunt amid rising tensions between his nationalist government and the autonomous region of Kosovo.
Sadik Duraku, 53, originally from the Kosovan village of Demjan, was held while driving over the border from Croatia at Batrovci to visit family last week
His daughter Suzana wrote in a petition online: 'He is being held for another 30 days before going to court, I fear what will come after this'
In a petition posted online, his daughter Suzana wrote: 'One day after Kosovo took a step closer to becoming a member of the Council of Europe, Serbia detained hundreds of Kosovans and Albanians at the
