{"id":80414,"date":"2026-02-17T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=80414"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:35:04","slug":"message-to-the-hague-5000-kla-emblems-attached-on-newborn-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/message-to-the-hague-5000-kla-emblems-attached-on-newborn-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Message to the Hague: 5,000 KLA emblems attached on NEWBORN monument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The iconic monument of Kosovo\u2019s independence, NEWBORN, has once again become the center of public reactions on the 18th anniversary of the declaration of independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being symbolically \u201cimprisoned\u201d with iron bars and the inscription \u201cKosovo Imprisoned!\u201d, this morning 5,000 KLA magnetic emblems were added to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists from the platform \u201cFreedom Has a Name,\u201d who surrounded the monument last night with metal bars, turning it into a prison image, have today filled it with KLA emblems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama expressed respect for this symbolism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cAfter the symbolic \u2018imprisonment\u2019 of the well-known commemorative NEWBORN with an iron grille and the inscription \u2018Kosovo Imprisoned,\u2019 today activists have placed 5,000 KLA emblems,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Rama wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eliza Hoxha from the organization \u201cFreedom Has a Name\u201d said last night that this public reaction is against the injustice of the Specialist Chambers, which they consider a tendency to rewrite history and undermine the struggle for freedom and the foundations of our state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she stated, NEWBORN\u2014the symbol of February 17 and the birth of our Republic\u2014has been included in their activities to reflect the sense of injustice that citizens and Kosovo are experiencing in the face of the ongoing trials at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kosovo today celebrates the 18th anniversary of independence, while former KLA leaders Hashim Thaci, Jakup Krasniqi, Kadri Veseli, and Rexhep Selimi remain in pre-trial detention in The Hague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic monument of Kosovo\u2019s independence, NEWBORN, has once again become the center of public reactions on the 18th anniversary of the declaration of independence. After being symbolically \u201cimprisoned\u201d with iron bars and the inscription \u201cKosovo Imprisoned!\u201d, this morning 5,000 KLA magnetic emblems were added to it. Activists from the platform \u201cFreedom Has a Name,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":80415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[1454,2302,7544,1170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80416,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80414\/revisions\/80416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}