Telekom Srbija workers taken into custody and then released in Kosovo
Telekom Srbija workers taken into custody in the Serb enclave of Gracanica after trying to get transmitters in the region to work have been released.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, May 13, 2010
The five workers were trying to fix the landline and mobile networks in central Kosovo, and spent three hours in a Gracanica prison.
Their personal identification cards were taken from them by Kosovo police, KPS, and they are expected to report back today.
The reaction of the KPS came 24 hours after the mobile and landline networks were reestablished in central Kosovo.
The five workers were arrested while working at a telephone pole in the village of Badovci, near Gracanica.
Workers of the local health center and ambulance blocked the entrance of the police station and traffic in Gracanica in protest for a short while.
Phone services of Telekom Srbija in most of central Kosovo continues to function.
Kosovo Albanian authorities last month disabled or destroyed mobile and landline telephony transmitters owned by Telekom and Telenor compenies to Serb areas south of the Ibar River.
