The head of the Islamic Community in Peja, Musli Arifaj, has threatened BLIC journalist Diamant Balaj. He had written in the newspaper about a case where Musli Arifaj was involved in exhuming a body and re-interred it without informing family members. In this case, Kosovo Police has initiated criminal proceedings qualifying the case as “damage to cemeteries or corpses.”
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