UN employee indicted on
sexual harassment, human trafficking charges
Agence France Presse – English - May 26, 2005 Thursday 7:48 PM GMT
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro May 26 - An employee of the United Nations refugee
agency (UNHCR) in Kosovo has been indicted on charges of sexual harassment of
minors and human trafficking, the UN announced Thursday.
UN Mission (UNMIK) spokesman Neeraj Singh told AFP that the "international
public prosecutor today filed an indictment with two charges against UNHCR
official Rashidun Kan."
"The indictment is related to charges of sexual exploitation of minors under 16
years of age and human trafficking," Singh said.
"He used sexual services of two minor girls with the knowledge that they were
victims of trafficking," he added.
Singh would not reveal Kan's nationality, but local media in Kosovo said he was
from Pakistan.
Kan was arrested in January and has since been in pre-trial detention. The
incidents occurred between September and December last year.
Together with Kan, a Kosovo woman was also charged with human trafficking.
A date for the trial in Kosovo before an international panel of judges has yet
to be set.
Kosovo is technically part of Serbia but has been a UN protectorate since NATO
intervened militarily in 1999 to end a war between Serbian forces and separatist
guerrillas from the province's ethnic Albanian majority seeking independence.
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