The International Committee of the Red Cross has asked the authorities in Yugoslavia for access to what it says are a considerable number of ethnic-Albanian political prisoners taken out of Kosovo by Serb forces.
A Red Cross spokesman said it hoped to receive permission soon to see the jailed ethnic-Albanians.
The United Nations human rights office in Geneva says it, too, has heard reports that the withdrawing Serb forces took between two and three thousand ethnic-Albanian prisoners with them.
It said it had asked for more information about them from the government in Belgrade.
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