Kosovo Condemns Serbian Border Arrest as ‘Witch Hunt’ (Balkan Insight)
The Pristina authorities urged the EU and US to intervene after Serbia arrested a German citizen of Kosovo origin on suspected war-related charges while travelling back from his summer holiday in Kosovo. Kosovo’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned the arrest of German citizen Ibrahim Matoshi as he crossed the Serbian border and demanded an end […]
Read More →Ranilug: Vitomir Ilic released (RTV Puls, KIM Radio)
Vitomir Ilic (58) from the village of Korminjane, near Ranilug arrested yesterday by Kosovo police was released today, RTV Puls reports. There are no proceedings launched against him, his lawyer Vasilije Arsic confirmed to RTV Puls. Vitomir Ilic, retired member of Serbian MUP was suspected of taking part in the Serbian police action in the […]
Read More →Vitomir Ilic from Korminjane, near Ranilug arrested (RTV Puls)
Special Kosovo police unit arrested this morning Vitomir Ilic (58) in the village of Korminjane, near Ranilug and took him for informative interrogation to the police station in Gnjilane, RTV Puls reports. Kosovo police for Gnjilane region spokesperson Ismet Hasani confirmed the arrest of a person of Serb nationality, without mentioning identity and reasons for […]
Read More →One more Serb suspected of war crimes in Kosovo (Radio kontakt plus)
Kosovo Serb Radomir Antic (65) was placed under one-month detention, while Kosovo prosecution launched an investigation against him over alleged war crimes committed in 1999 in the area of Zegovacka Vrbica village, near Gnjilane, Radio kontakt plus reported. Antic was arrested a few days ago and police found a hunting weapon with expired licence, gun […]
Read More →Kosovo Mulls Allowing War Crime Trials in Absentia (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo prosecutors are discussing amending the criminal procedure code so that they could try war crimes suspects in absentia, as an extradition deal with Serbia seems unlikely. Kosovo’s judicial authorities are considering changes to the criminal code in order to prosecute war crimes suspects in absentia, as they see little chance of Kosovo signing an […]
Read More →Serbia to Seek Extradition of War Crimes Suspect (Balkan Insight)
Serbia said it would ask Montenegro to hand over a former Serbian fighter accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and arrested in the Adriatic republic last week. Serbia’s justice ministry told BIRN on Tuesday it would ask neighbouring Montenegro to extradite Predrag Vukovic, a Yugoslav Army veteran accused of involvement in the massacre […]
Read More →Kosovo war crimes prosecutor interviewed (UNS, B92)
UNMIK and EULEX missions with a large number of prosecutors failed to solve murders and abductions of journalists, and local prosecutors are expected now to redeem what the international ones failed to do. And this should be done with only two prosecutors, says Drita Hajdari, a war crimes prosecutor at the Special Prosecutor Office of […]
Read More →House arrest to Zajic extended for two more months (KIM Radio)
The Basic Court in Pec judge Sul Lokaj made decision to extend the house arrest to Klina returnee Milorad Zajic for two more months, KIM Radio reported. Kosovo Special Prosecution suspects Zajic of committing a war crime, as he allegedly at the end of the 1999 conflict, as a police member took part in burning […]
Read More →Dejan Slavic released (KoSSev portal)
Dejan Slavic who was in detention under war crimes charges raised the Basic Court in Pristina was set free, his lawyer, Nebojsa Vlajic confirmed to KoSSev portal. “His detention is annulled. The decision says there are no reasons for detention any longer, without providing any other details. However, he was most probably arrested as he […]
Read More →Mitrovica court finds Kosovo Serb Zoran Vukotic guilty of war crimes (media)
Basic Court in Mitrovica has found Zoran Vukotic, a former police reserve, guilty of war crimes against Albanian civilian population and has sentenced him to six and a half years in prison. Vukotic was convicted for illegal detention and cruel and inhumane treatment of persons in the detention centre of Smrekovnica but was acquitted of […]
Read More →Tasic pleaded not guilty (KIM Radio)
Chair of the Basic Court Council in Prizren, Artan Sejrani hold a first hearing for accused Darko Tasic from Mala Krusa, KIM Radio reported. EULEX international prosecutor read an indictment accusing Tasic of committing two acts of war crime, while Tasic pleaded not guilty to the charges. “Darko’s indictment is perhaps the last one raised […]
Read More →UNSC meets on Kosovo: Pristina will not like Guterres report (B92, Tanjug, RTS)
A regular UN Security Council session on Kosovo will be held on Monday in New York. Serbia is represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic. The session will discuss the UN secretary-general’s report on the work of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, covering the period from January 17 to April 15. ”In his […]
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