{"id":4011,"date":"2013-04-29T23:07:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2013-04-29T23:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T18:07:46","slug":"five-doctors-jailed-for-kosovo-organ-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Five doctors jailed for Kosovo organ trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/images8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4009\" alt=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/images8.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants.<\/p>\n<div>Former Kosovo health minister Ilir Rrecaj &#8212; who admitted during the trial that he knew that illegal kidney transplants were carried out at the Medicus clinic in Pristina in 2008, but denied covering them up &#8212; was acquitted.<\/div>\n<div>Prominent Pristina urologist Lutfi Dervishi got the stiffest term of eight years for &#8220;organised crime and human trafficking,&#8221; the judge said in the verdict.<\/div>\n<div>His son Arban Dervishi was sentenced to seven years and three months while the other three defendants received between one and three years imprisonment.<\/div>\n<div>The indictment says that at least 30 illegal kidney removals and transplants were carried out at the clinic in the Kosovo capital in 2008.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}