Bogdan Mitrovic, after four and a half months of detention, is released, and says that justice has won. The representatives of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija welcomed Mitrovic in his home in Mladenovac.

Mitrovic thanked for the help, and the special thank, as he says, he owes to the president of Serbia.

Mitrovic says that he felt sorry because he had grown old in Sopina village, and that he did not do anything wrong and he had been named, as it has been said, a criminal.

Detention of Bogdan Mitrovic was extended for two more months based on the decision of the Basic Court in Prizren and the proposal of the Special Prosecution for War Crimes in Kosovo, lawyer Dejan A. Vasic told KoSSev portal.

Special War Crimes Prosecutor, Elez Blakaj has expanded the investigation against Bogdan Mitrovic to seven more persons, one of them Albanian, lawyer Dejan A. Vasic said to KIM Radio.

The Basic Court in Prizren approved this request.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija is “appalled with the prolongation of Bogdan Mitrovic’s agony, who was arrested at the end of August, in the Suva Reka municipality under false charges that he had participated in war crimes,” Serbian media reported citing the press statement from the Office for Kosovo.

The statement further reads witnesses in their testimonies given so far have confirmed that Mitrovic is innocent, thus confirming that he is the victim of lack of justice and legal violence, and his detention was extended, without any grounds, for two more months.

The court in Prizren has extended detention to Bogdan Mitrovic, who was arrested in August while visiting his family house near Suva Reka, for two more months, Kontakt plus radio reported.

Mitrovic’s defence lawyer Dejan A. Vasic said that decision on extension of detention was not expected, taking into account testimonies of witnesses interviewed so far.

Mitrovic was accused based on the statement of his Albanian neighbour who said that Mitrovic allegedly participated in events that have elements of crimes against civilian population.

The investigation against Bogdan Mitrović began yesterday and will end on September 22, after which Pristina prosecution will decide whether his custody will be extended, lawyer Dejan A. Vasić said yesterday, reports KiM radio.

Lawyer Dejan Vasić told Beta news agency that the investigation in the Special Prosecutor's Office in Pristina began with the hearing of the prosecution's main witness.

The Basic Court in Prizren has approved the request of the Special Prosecution to detain for one month Bogdan Mitrovic, suspect of war crimes committed in Sopi village.

"The defendant is suspected of cooperating in committing war crimes against the civilian population on 02.04.1999, in Sopi village, where 32 unarmed civilians were killed by the Serbian armed forces, and the above mentioned defendant was among them," reads the announcement of the Basic Court in Prizren.