The political adviser of the prime minister of Kosovo for Preševo, Medvegja and Bujanoc, Ardita Sinani, said that she was stopped for “over an hour” by the Serbian police on the border with Kosovo on Monday.

Sinani said that the Serbian border police stopped her on August 7 at the Muçibaba crossing point, about 20 kilometers from Gjilan in the southeast of the country, writes REL.

“The only excuse given to me by the border police of Serbia was ‘We have an order for your detention and we cannot allow you to cross the border without obtaining consent from the base,'” Sinani wrote on Facebook.

The former mayor of the Municipality of Preševo, complained that she was stopped without “any additional clarification about the reason, or who is the basis that should be asked and get permission to cross the border.”

“This may be the cost of being a Political Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, but it will certainly not be the means by which the voice for the rights of the Albanians of the Preševo Valley will be silenced,” she wrote.

This case, she underlined, will certainly only be “an even bigger push to speak even louder” about Serbian state discrimination against Albanians.

“Detention by the police at the border is just one of them, which is also an old political method of suppressing the political fathers of the current leaders of Serbia.”