YUGOSLAV PRISONS IN THE PEOPLE S REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 15, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
? INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Yugoslav Prisons in the Peoples Republic
of Vacedonia
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Idrizovo Prison, near Lkoplje, is the largest in the Nacedonian Republic
and houses up to 4,000 prisoners. It consists of the following buildings:
a. Two medium?sized buildings, the larger one for male prisoners, the
smaller one for female prisoners.
b. A large building constructed between 1948 and 1950 which has five
stories and a basement. Its capacity is 3,000 prisoners.
c. An adrinistration building.
db h farm.
e. A brick factory.
f. A building housing various workshops.
g. Ten small buildings.
2. The building which houses the workshops is divided into the following shops:
Carpet shop, where 150 prisoners worked. Their foreman was a certain
Nistakiris, who Was an important industrialist before being imprisoned.
b. Shoe Shop, employing 60 prisoners.
c. Tailor shop, employing 30 prisoners.
d. Carpentry Shop, employing 100 prisoners.
e. LoOksmith stop, employing 40 prisoners.
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York on the tern,factory,er one of the ahOkieit compulsory for all inmates.
Approximately-80 prison?re cork on the fart:* in the brick factory. alien
no work is available at:the-prison, inmatei!eare sent elsewhere to Work.. .
The Ministry of Interior building in fftplje, at "Kei 1) (Ober" rtreet,,
Was constructed by Idriies6 prison labor-. Other projects utilizing Ide*-Sovo
Orieoners o a the following:
The niariserarejeve railroad line in riii0* used 300 priieners in 1947.
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A number of prisoner '.iere sent to the Dreinak mine, near DiiMir
in 1949.'
C. In 1950 Idrirove prieOWSre Pere eent tO?eitlrajlPrieon to iesint in the
conetruction of a buiI4ing for up off4iele.
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d. In 1950, 200 Idrie0VOHirlionere were isitt to Goetivar Prison to wor
in the brick faotoritherei
4 the warden of the /dritqa64'riaon wari a Majer reported to bein illitert?
farmer veie in 1944 had'oomeanded the Kaeth:4rigade. Aseietants to tie amrden
Were an undergraauate etudeat from Ilegoti4 en the Vardar River end Zeharijades
VUlg:rekie a former laborer, A certain First Lieutenant Laic, Irom 'Reedit&
on the Varaar River wacOhief jailor,
5. The prisonere at the firipovo Prieon are lodged in large roome whiCh aecoodate
between 50 to 150 pertonti, There are als6,06Me cello used for solitary
eonfineeenttieleh are ohs bir one and a heir meters ara1 two be three motors
in size,
6. Relatives of innatee are permitted to visit the prison once' month and 4ii
for-itted to eend two food parceleof neven kilos wail rionthiy. There are
no restrictions concerning rail.
74 Disobedience, eVen to a stiall degree is punished severely. Offendere are
subjected to beatings and temporary suspension of the right to receive food,
mail and vieiters.
8. Sara j Prieion la located near the Djordje Petrov (formerly General Heorlievo)
railroad etatioh 14 the villaee of Saraj. It consists of six berracks and
houSee 800 priPoners. The warden of tile prison was a certain Punter, fret
irilep. The prion guard oonsistsof a militia unit of thirty men under the
cormand of a warrant officer.
9. Aecording to sovrco, n /avast 1950 the beauties at "artj incleed
approxleately 50 Yugoelav Officers and 80 Yugoelav soldiere 'Ave bad been
sentenced by military eourts for political an other offenses, There vere
also six Buleare f olarillagoevgrad (Gorna Djumaya) who had ereaped into
Yugoslavia from - aria.
10, The prieonere .t 4-0.raj wee aseignod to wee: on the followine projects in
the summer of 1950:
a. The conetruetion of a tmilding in f,laral for 11DE1 officials. The building
is three stories high, 80 meters long end 15 meter ide. It houses h
, theater, a restaurant, and a coffee house.
b. The construction of a tercet renge for Utal Official. The range is
located two kilemetere beyond the village or Smraj in the direction of
the Djordje Petrov railroad station. It includes an artificial hill
100 =eters Web on vhich the targets rxe niaeod, a terrace, and a
svial building,.
c. The constructive of a football field and tennis courts for the ure of
UDB officials?
1/. Fifty raraj prir'oners eemked on-the prison fare and 200 were temporarily
aJsigned in the Sumer of 1950 to -pork at the Vtrdar Brick F ctory in
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Priten.ha* its ovn eleCtric power p
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13. Zevadarci Prison is located intevadarci and houses 500 prisoners.
Inmates at tbis pricont as in the Central Prison in Pkop1/0" are not
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14. Abdtlo.Kell, a man froth the village of Gopaeli" is440Orted to havitilatin
confined,in.-4avadarei Prison Without trial for refusing to work ,in the
calleistives. Zolile fithnr? ,Shalau bad bet arrested for the some
otfcrnse and vai so badly beaten 1.1hile it f4iicon that o died One,montb
af et H. release. A brother of Abdul& e1i, xibd Pam, ma ale? 604..
fined bt,havadardi for three tthe1,15. .
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hadober triton., loteted in tadebor' Oistriet of 1it1, houseo 420!
laonOrs, mest.of whom had been irw3oned fo one s in otinneetion"with
d collectives.
16. Other Collectives offenders '4t4re sent tc.ilerced,lahor camp looted in
thOltillage of -tero Solo, en the Crna Pivit, in hitolj dirtrict, In the
Author* of 1950 the warden of tbc camp vas :me CanO.froM Voles.
1/. l'atie baler and Nilo o, *i, farmers of VladinurCvo village', Perot* diatriet,
iiirkred,Sik month terms at.the Stdro relo labor Ow heed:use of their refucal
to Vor4 in the canoe:tit,*
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Ia. prtaoaerv at rtpro rola rtrii enalloyed on land reciadttion rrojests 4ind flood
Oantrol prejectb on the'Cint Poke Fiver. In govvilltvT 1950, *Uzi these-
projectt yore abandonadi 250 prisoners were releheed and another 250 ',tore
transferred to other pr sons.
19. Included anlarto nr,ter rt :taro 10 ivre %Ire? titliarr ?=00 bad o' ed
to lUgoslavinin the belief tiort Tito's reglme ?,ros ito lonterolimunArtia.
Upon discovering tte true state of effairo, the7 attempted to escape to
Greece, but thervereaopiehemded and sentencod to two menthe imprisonment.
teir sentences were Imler extoaded to toolreara. *
20. Tho Tetove Prisohoanfinei the relativv0 cpf. ebi tOtteise v'o, 1:4 1.501)
escalmd Zro the village ot Ilmeinovo, birovo distriot, into Greece..
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