Samir/Rowdy
Please add my name to the letter
Wendy
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From:
Therapeutic Communities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rowdy Yates
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012
12:46 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [EFTC] Serbian
Treatment Abuse
Samir
Thank
you for alerting us to this. There seems to be a heated debate regarding
whether he was actually defrocked and was acting independently or whether his
“work” was con tinuing to be sanctioned by the Serbian Orthodox Church. I
have been discussing the situation this morning with another EFTC Board Member
and our thinking is that we should write formally to Nils Mui¾nieks, the EU
Commissioner for Human Rights; Dr. Dejan Popovic, Serbian
Ambassador to the UK; and Salil
Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
It
would be a help if Samir and other list members from the Balkans area could
provide me with additional information on this story so that I can be as
informed as possible in putting together a formal letter. The B92 site
provided by Samir is obviously in Serbian and the Google Translate is not
particularly helpful. There is an English language version (though it’s
quite short) buried in their website at:
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2012&mm=08&dd=07&nav_id=81660
Please
keep your thoughts and further information coming.
Rowdy
Yates
Snr.
Research Fellow
Scottish
Addiction Studies
School
of Applied Social Science
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From:
Therapeutic Communities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of samir ibisevic
Sent: 08 August 2012 09:34
To:
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Subject: Re: [EFTC] Serbian
Treatment Abuse
Dear all,
Unfortunately,
condaming treatment abuse in
The priest
was not alone in operating of the treatment centar. Behind him there is a whole
movement which support such approach in the sense of logistic,
funding, parent support and so on. On the other side there are people involved
in drug treatment without a capacity to confront such phenomena. I have watched
TV show in which the killer priest manege to convince public that is good what
his doing. Some of most famous drug treatment professionals in
We need to
educate politicians, churches, ministry
representatives, governmental officals and other stakeholders what is
treatment about. Especially here on Balkans where we lack of funds
and adequate surveys which shows real facts about the sucesfulnes of TC
programs.
We need
Balkan TC conference, we need EFTC to do some action. If not, there will be
other cases of abuse of treatment and lack of funding and closing down for
those who apply responsible love and concern.
Samir
Ibisevic
From: Rowdy Yates <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:53
AM
Subject: [EFTC] Serbian Treatment
Abuse
Most list
members will (I imagine) be pleased to here that the anger over this issue has
resulted in significant changes:
For
information, I picked this up from Daily Dose – an invaluable news-gathering
service:
You will also
see that Daily Dose (and a number of other newspapers) carried an EFTC
statement condemning the practice:
Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Section
Department of Applied Social Science
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