I was beaten in the Niš Prison, they crushed me, they trampled on me. It wasn’t just that they beat me, there were three supervisors. I was sentenced by [Aleksandar] Ranković because I didn’t stay quiet, even in prison, do you understand? Three of them trampled on me, and I spent months recovering, do you understand? In isolation for 14 months with 200 grams of bread. From 72 kilos, I dropped to 32 kilos. What more can I tell you? A greater punishment… there was no cell light, nothing, no window, no threshold. I could never sleep because in Niš the wind blows, and the Niš Prison is in a place where the wind hits from all sides.
[…] My father came to see me. My father was elderly, as I told you, 89 years old. He came to see me. When he saw me at 30 kilos, he almost walked into the path of an oncoming bus. But I had a cousin who was the conductor, and he recognized him and stopped the bus.
Fehmi Elmazi was born in 1941 in Gjilan. In 1964, he was imprisoned due to his political activity and was released in 1966. He worked as an accountant at the “Ramiz Sadiku” enterprise until 1990. After 1990, he worked at the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare. He is now retired and lives with his family in Pristina.