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Ukshin Hoti

Ukshin Hoti (1943-1999) was an Albanian philosopher and activist. Hoti was a professor of international law and later philosophy at the University of Pristina and founder of UNIKOMB, a political party of Kosovo. Since 1982 he had been arrested several times by national authorities. In 1994 he was convicted to five years in the Dubrava prison. In May 1999, when his sentence ended and he was to be released, guards of the prison relocated him.[1] His whereabouts are unknown and many human rights activists consider him dead.

Life

Ushkin Hoti (Serbo-Croat: Укшин Хоти, Ukšin Hoti) was born in the town of Orahovac or Rahovec (depending on language) in the territory disputed between the Albanian Kingdom and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He studied political science at the University of Zagreb and the University of Belgrade and did postgraduate research at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the University of Washington in international relations and political science.[2] From 1975, Hoti taught international law at the University of Pristina and held an administrative position at the parliament of Kosovo.

In 1982 he was sentenced by a Yugoslav court and spent three and a half years in prison for his support to the students' uprising of 1981, although he was not charged with the use or advocacy of violence.[2][3] In 1983 Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience.[3] On 28 September 1994, he was sentenced to five years in the Dubrava penitentiary for "endangering the constitutional order of Serbia".[2] On May 16, 1999 the day he was to be released, he was last seen alive by three inmates.[4] Rather than be released, he was transferred to the prison of Niš, where he was allegedly assassinated.[2]

His works include the treatise, the Philosophical Politics of the Albanian Cause (Albanian: Filozofia politike e ceshtjes shqiptare), published in English in 1998.[2] He was also nominated for the Sakharov Prize in 1998.[5] His brother Afrim, a member of Vetëvendosje was elected a deputy of Orahovac in the parliamentary elections of Kosovo in 2010.

See also

Bardhyl Çaushi, dean of law of the University of Pristina, abducted by Serb troops loyal to the Milosevic regime in 1999[6] and held in national prisons since then. His body was found and identified in 2005 in Serbia and Montenegro.

Sources

  1. ^ "Pan-Albanianism: How Big a Threat to Balkan Stability?" (PDF). International Crisis Group. February 25, 2004. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Elsie, Robert (2004). Historical dictionary of Kosova. Scarecrow Press. p. 78. ISBN 0-8108-5309-4.
  3. ^ a b Amnesty International report. Amnesty International Publications. 1983.
  4. ^ Human Rights Watch (November 2001). Under orders: war crimes in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. p. 245. ISBN 1-56432-264-5.
  5. ^ "Official Journal of the European Communities". Europa. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
  6. ^ Kosovo's displaced and imprisoned: hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, February 28, 2000. U.S. G.P.O. 2001. p. 87. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

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