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.