Leader of Bulgarian minority in Yugoslavia faces military court
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Leader of Bulgarian minority in Yugoslavia faces military
court
Leader of Bulgarian minority in Yugoslavia faces military court
The leader of Democratic Union of Bulgarians in Yugoslavia - Dr. Marco
Shukerov, was arrested in the beginning of June and put in a military
prison in Nis. His wife - Pavlina Shukerova - gave the information
that a law suit against him is sheduled for June 16th.
Dr. Shukerov, who is a gynaeocologist, was taken as a reservist in the
Yugoslav Army and worked there as a medical orderly. He was having a
sharp toothache but was refused a visit to the dentist. One night he
visited his wife who is a dentist and in the morning, when he returned
to his military base, he was arrested as a deserter and put into a
military prison. He has been there for 17 days, without any official
charges against him. It is one week since he has not been seen even
during the compulsory 40-minutes walk every day. Nobody has answered
to the questions of his wife whether he was ill or whether he was
transferred to a more severe regime.
Shukerov also has a suspended sentence for participating in the May
24th celebration (the Day of the Saints Cyrillus and Methodius and of
the Bulgarian and Slavic Culture) on the city square of Tsaribrod
(Dimitrovgrad).
Bulgarian President Peter Stoyanov had a talk with the councellor of
the Helsinki Committee in Tsaribrod (Dimitrovgrad) - Ms. Zdenka
Todorova. He expressed his anxiety about the information that in the
prison Dr. Shukerov was put under pressure to abolish his Bulgarian
citizenship, which is second to him. President Stoyanov also expressed
his desire Dr. Shukerov to be defended by Bulgarian layers. Amnesty
International and other human rights organizations were informed about
the case.
Bulgarian Foreign Affair Minister Ms. Nadezhda Mihajlova said, that
all what is possible would be done for the release of Shukerov. She
repeated that the taking reservists into the Yugoslav Army is done on
ethnic basis, and that the accusations against Dr. Shukerov are
groundless. Representatives of Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Ministry
issued a protest note to the temporary representative of the Yugoslav
Embassy in Sofia, Mr. Srechko Jukic.
After "Pari" Newspaper, Sofia, June 15th
http://www.news.pari.bg/cgi-bin/pari.home.cgi
translated by P. Malinov and V. Karloukovski
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