Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Kosovo that after the constitution of the government and Parliament should be established a special court for war crimes in Kosovo. "I call on political leaders from Kosovo to double the efforts and strengthen the broad public understanding and consensus on this issue, considering its importance for the future of Kosovo," reads the report.
Five people in Kosovo have been indicted on terrorism charges for fighting in Syria, trying to buy assault rifles and assaulting two Christian missionaries from the United States in 2013.
The indictments coincided with a vote in parliament on introducing prison sentences for waging war abroad, as the predominantly Muslim Balkan country seeks to confront the threat posed by radical Islamists returning from Syria and Iraq.
BELGRADE - Deputy Chief Prosecutor at Kosovo’s Special Prosecution Office Jonathan Ratel has pledged that EULEX will reopen all cases of kidnapped and murdered journalists in Kosovo-Metohija, the Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) has said in a release.
A delegation of UNS representatives met with Ratel at the EULEX headquarters in Pristina Friday for exchange of information on the cases involving kidnappings and murders of journalists in the southern Serbian province.
The Association of Djakovica citizens has asked the US Ambassador in Pristina Tracy Jacobson, representatives of KFOR, UNMIK and EULEX, and non-governmental organizations to enable them to visit Serbian churches in this town in southwestern Kosovo. A bus carrying 40 displaced Serbs from that town was stoned in front of the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin in Djakovica on Christmas Eve.
Serbian citizen named as Slobodan Gavric, who was arrested in Pristina with 13 kg of explosives in his possession, was placed in 30-day custody on Saturday.
He is held "on suspicion of organising terrorist activities and bringing explosives into Kosovo," Tanjug reported.
Head of the Pristina court of first instance Hamdi Ibrahimi told Tanjug on Saturday Gavric "confessed to the second crime, but stated that he had intended to sell the explosives and denied the first crime."
Supporting the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will be a priority for Eulex next year, Eulex chief Gabriele Meucci has said, expressing satisfaction with the fact that the dialogue will resume as early as February.
Eulex will work on implementation of technical details of the agreement, in particular in the area of the judiciary, Meucci said in an interview with Tanjug, expressing hope that the mission will succeed in integrating the judiciary in northern Kosovo and establish courts with Serb judges and prosecutors.
EULEX confirmed that the house arrest order against the Mayor of Zubin Potok Municipality, Stevan Vulovic, was suspended on Friday. The decision, brought by the Basis Court in Mitrovica, came into force on 19 of December, the EULEX spokesperson, Dragana Nikolic-Solomon, confirmed to KoSSev.
Vulovic was ordered 30 days of house arrest after he voluntarily reported himself for questioning to the Basic Court in North Mitrovica on 8 December.
Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuci, hosted today a meeting with the chief of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX,) Gabriele Meucci. In this occasion the latter congratulated Kuci on his new mandate as Minister of Justice.
Albania prosecutors are helping their Kosovo counterparts investigate corruption allegations against EULEX judge Francesco Florit, BIRN can reveal.
Documents obtained by BIRN show that Tirana District Court on September 19 approved a prosecutor’s office request to assist the Kosovo judicial authorities in investigating an Italian EULEX judge and two others suspected of corruption.
I am certain I will absolutely prove my innocence, although there is the frustrating fact that I have to prove my innocence, instead of the prosecution proving my guilt, stated leader of the civic initiative “Serbia, Democracy, Justice” Oliver Ivanovic.