Nehat Thaci, the Kosovo Police director in the Mitrovica area who was arrested last month by Serbia, denied charges accusing him of staging a terrorist attack on a Serb family in 1999.
Kosovo’s parliament on Friday is to start debating the draft law on transforming the Trepca mining and industrial processing complex into a shareholding company. The debate starts almost two years after the government withdrew the draft law from parliament due to opposition protests.
New probes launched against several officials of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, threaten to undermine the power of the party that has dominated politics for over a decade.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/wiretap-probes-may-weaken-kosovo-s-biggest-party-10-05-2016
Kosovo on Monday refused to allow Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government’s Kosovo office, into the country, having ordered him out in September for breaking the protocol on Serbian official visits.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/djuric-prohibited-from-entering-in-kosovo-10-03-2016
“I am obligated to protect witnesses and to keep confidential and secure all information that should be protected to ensure that witnesses who give evidence are not intimidated or harmed or threatened,” US lawyer David Schwendiman told his first press conference last month as the chief prosecutor at the Specialist Chambers.
Rumours that Serbs planned to build a basketball court on a site where a mosque once stood in the divided northern town of Mitrovica have upset some Kosovo Albanians.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/basketball-court-sparks-mosque-row-in-kosovo-09-28-2016
Kosovo police’s director in the Mitrovica area, Nehat Thaci, has been arrested at a border crossing by the Serbian authorities on terrorism charges, although the specific allegations remain unknown.
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-police-director-arrested-in-serbia-09-29-2016
Kosovo’s Special Prosecution announced an investigation into killings and disappearances in the village of Mushtisht/Mustiste in 1999 after locals staged a protest against what they said was official inaction.
Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has admitted that it is not investigating the killings and disappearances of Albanians and Serbs in the village of Mushtisht/Mustiste during and after the war in 1999.
Kosovo students have been protesting against a Serbian Orthodox Church that stands on the Pristina University campus, claiming that it is a symbol of Slobodan Milosevic’s repressive regime.