BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric expressed the expectation that leader of Citizens Initiative 'Serbia, Democracy, Justice' Oliver Ivanovic would be released from prison in the next few days. ”We expect and hope that we will have a chance in the next few days to confer with Oliver Ivanovic but that he will this time be free,” Djuric told a news conference in the Serbian government building after meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and representatives of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs. He underscored that the Serbian government is giving moral support to all defendants in this case and similar proceedings. ”We want the province to be a place marked by rule of law and justice instead of rule of force and injustice,” Djuric said. Ivanovic was detained on January 27 on suspicion that he participated in the crimes against ethnic Albanians in 1999 and 2000 but the indictment against him was never raised.