Post by Kanaris on Aug 10, 2008 23:51:03 GMT -5
Did anyone expect anything else... now these guys are waiving the U.S. passports thinking it's their ticket out of there.... I think the U.S. should revoke their citizenship... since they are not born there.... and they were found guilty. U.S. citizen my eye.....
TUZI (AP) – Two US citizens convicted in Montenegro of plotting an ethnic Albanian rebellion in the country said in an interview yesterday that they are innocent, and they accused the authorities of torture.
Michigan residents Rrok and Kola Dedvukaj told AP that the convictions this week in Montenegro of them and 15 other ethnic Albanians were a government “setup.” “I am completely innocent,” Rrok Dedvukaj, 49, said in Tuzi, a predominantly ethnic Albanian town east of Podgorica, Montenegro’s capital.
“I was beaten and humiliated during the arrest” in 2006.
The Dedvukaj cousins and two other US citizens were among those found guilty of planning attacks on state institutions with the aim of carving out an autonomous region for minority Albanians in Montenegro.
A Montenegrin court ruled that the group was gathering weapons and preparing for the rebellion under the instructions of their leader, Doda Ljucaj, also a Michigan resident.
They were convicted of committing acts against the security of Montenegro and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three months to six-and-a-half years. Rrok and Kola Dedvukaj each received prison terms of three years.
Only Ljucaj remains in custody. The others, including the Dedvukaj cousins, have been temporarily released, and their lawyers said they will appeal their convictions. Their passports have been confiscated and they have been ordered to remain in Montenegro until ordered to serve the remainder of their prison terms.
“I am still a prisoner here,” said Rrok Dedvukaj of Troy, Michigan. “I am followed every single second, wherever I go, whatever I do, whoever I meet.” He added: “I came here only to refresh memories of my childhood and that dream was killed by the Montenegrin government.” Kola Dedvukaj of Farmington Hills, Michigan, said, “I am not a terrorist.”
“I have a wife, five kids, eight grandkids in America, and I have never been in jail in my life,” the 60-year-old man said. “This was a setup, nothing else,” he claimed.
The plotters were arrested in September 2006, on the eve of*general election in Montenegro and just a few months after the country broke away from a union with much larger Serbia. The Dedvukajs both denied that they wanted to carve out an Albanian state in Montenegro. Rrok Dedvukaj said they “just want equal rights with the Montenegrins before the law.”
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TUZI (AP) – Two US citizens convicted in Montenegro of plotting an ethnic Albanian rebellion in the country said in an interview yesterday that they are innocent, and they accused the authorities of torture.
Michigan residents Rrok and Kola Dedvukaj told AP that the convictions this week in Montenegro of them and 15 other ethnic Albanians were a government “setup.” “I am completely innocent,” Rrok Dedvukaj, 49, said in Tuzi, a predominantly ethnic Albanian town east of Podgorica, Montenegro’s capital.
“I was beaten and humiliated during the arrest” in 2006.
The Dedvukaj cousins and two other US citizens were among those found guilty of planning attacks on state institutions with the aim of carving out an autonomous region for minority Albanians in Montenegro.
A Montenegrin court ruled that the group was gathering weapons and preparing for the rebellion under the instructions of their leader, Doda Ljucaj, also a Michigan resident.
They were convicted of committing acts against the security of Montenegro and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three months to six-and-a-half years. Rrok and Kola Dedvukaj each received prison terms of three years.
Only Ljucaj remains in custody. The others, including the Dedvukaj cousins, have been temporarily released, and their lawyers said they will appeal their convictions. Their passports have been confiscated and they have been ordered to remain in Montenegro until ordered to serve the remainder of their prison terms.
“I am still a prisoner here,” said Rrok Dedvukaj of Troy, Michigan. “I am followed every single second, wherever I go, whatever I do, whoever I meet.” He added: “I came here only to refresh memories of my childhood and that dream was killed by the Montenegrin government.” Kola Dedvukaj of Farmington Hills, Michigan, said, “I am not a terrorist.”
“I have a wife, five kids, eight grandkids in America, and I have never been in jail in my life,” the 60-year-old man said. “This was a setup, nothing else,” he claimed.
The plotters were arrested in September 2006, on the eve of*general election in Montenegro and just a few months after the country broke away from a union with much larger Serbia. The Dedvukajs both denied that they wanted to carve out an Albanian state in Montenegro. Rrok Dedvukaj said they “just want equal rights with the Montenegrins before the law.”
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