Terrorist Handed Over
The duty officer from the central prison called IPTF station at about 2035 hours, and informed that some terrorist would be handed over to the Federal Ministry of interior at around tonight. Expecting a crowd to gather relating to this event. Local Police asked IPTF to be present at the scene. Six monitors and two legal adviser were assigned to this mission starting at 22.45.
After their arrival at the central prison, GR 929598, they contacted deputy director of the prison and came to know that they were only six persons with Algerian nationality who were charged with terrorism. CANTENO and Federation Supreme Court, Dealing with the case, decided to be release them on the 17th January 2002 by 24:00 hours due to the back of sufficient evidence. But the Deputy Federation Minister of Justice had ordered prison authorities to hand over mentioned individuals to the police. The police unit including units of support, units of anti terrorist and other units from local station arrived at central prison in ordered to escort the convoy to an unknown destination around 23:30 hrs, Around 50 protesters, mostly Muslim men and women started to gather around prison and started to protesting against hand over measure as they through the warrant was not valid any more. IPTF found the detainee warrant expired starting from the 18th of January. They started blocking the main street including all the Junction around the prison. The IPTF monitors split in two teams, inside and outside the prison. George Melon Acob was in charge of the handover operation as the protesters continued to gather in front of the prison gates and neighborhood, they reached approximately 300 to 400 people at 01:00 hours on 18th January 2002. They were shouting and acting in an aggressive manner. The local authority could not make a decision regarding the direction of the convey because the streets and junctions were totally blocked by the protectors and their cars. Meanwhile the prison back up forces from Sarajevo Central Station arrived to support the operation. The Federal Ministry of interior decided to take prisoners out handcuffed and put them in three vans. As the situation outside the prison was very tensed the prisoners were and removed through the main gates into another van. The situation remained unchanged for a couple of hours.
At around 04:00 hrs, a representative of the ministry of interior arrived and took the command of the operation. At the same time the crowd in the street started disperse due to the cold weather. But the junctions still remained blocked. At around 05:00 hrs most of the demonstrator had left the scene and removed the cars from the junctions. Finally with force the succeeded the released the prisoners, police cars to an unknown destinations. No one IPTF was injured but two UN Vehicles were surrounded by demonstrators for four hours. Some protestor for four hours. some protester arrested; some people officer were injured as well as the protecters.
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