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Pristina indicts Serb for preparing terrorist attacks in Kosovo (Kossev, Koha, N1)

Kosovo Special Prosecutors’ Office indicted a Serb identified only by initials S.A. suspected of “preparing terrorist or criminal acts against Kosovo’s Constitutional order and safety,” the KoSSev website reported on Wednesday.

According to Pristina’s Koha website, the charge sheet says that S.A. has sent a package to R.R. with a gun, six bullets, some boxes with medicines and “a Serb pamphlet with the logo of the ‘Supreme Command of the Liberation Army of Kosovo and Metohija’.

The indictment was published only days before Kosovo's early general elections on Sunday.

Kosovo Serb charged with war crimes after spending months in jail (N1, KoSSev)

A Kosovo Serb who has spent several months in jail has been charged with war crimes committed in 1999 in the town of Pec, the KoSSev news portal reported on Tuesday.

The Special Prosecution indicted Zoran Djokic of Pec for war crimes against the civilian population in March and April of 1999, a prosecution press release said.

Kosovo's Special Prosecutor Hoxha: We have reasons to suspect that Radoicic was involved in Ivanovic's murder (NIN, KIM radio)

By gathering evidence during the investigation, we have come to the reasonable suspicion that Radoicic worked with people who are now in custody, and who are suspected of having participated or assisting the perpetrators of the murder of the SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic. Of course, all this has yet to be confirmed, says the Kosovo Special Prosecutor, Sylë Hoxha to the Belgrade based weekly NIN, KIM radio is quoting.

Nicic: Kosovo prosecution violated Law on Official Languages (RTV KIM, Radio kontakt plus)

Chairperson of Association of Journalists of Serbia in Kosovo, Budimir Nicic requested Kosovo prosecution “to initiate in line with official duty, a lawsuit against the Kosovo Special Prosecution,” since the latter violated the Law on Official Languages in Kosovo during the press conference held on Monday, Serbian media reported.

Chief of the Special Prosecution, Reshat Milaku held a press conference, where he tried to explain to the journalists all the issues related to the indictment for fake KLA veterans and the resignation of prosecutor Elez Blakaj.

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 Kosovo, in an interview for the Dossier on kidnapped and murdered journalists and media workers.

Bozovic: No progress in investigation (KIM Radio, Slobodno srpski)

Four months after the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, there is no progress in the investigation, Deputy Leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, (CI SDP) Ksenija Bozovic said in Slobodno srpski talk show.

Bozovic also said she was told in a Kosovo Special Prosecution Office where she was giving a testimony, that surveillance cameras placed in a building where CI SDP offices are located and Ivanovic murdered in front of it, did not work at the time when the murder occurred.

Still no suspects for murder of Oliver Ivanovic (KIM Radio, Insajder)

Pristina Special Prosecution took over the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic murder in March, and one of the prosecutors in this case Syle Hoxha said there are no suspects identified, adding that “gathering of evidence is still underway,” KIM Radio reported.

Prosecutor Hoxha briefly responded to Insajder questions, saying there are neither new information related to the vehicle seen on surveillance cameras’ records on the spot of the murder, later burned down, nor new recordings of the murder.

Seventh attempt of journalists to place memorial plaque – We are searching for them (Radio kontakt plus)

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) would today for the seventh time place a memorial plaque next to the Orahovac-Velika Hoca road, dedicated to the missing Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, Radio kontakt plus reported.

UNS press statement reads they placed six times a plaque with the inscription – Our colleagues, journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, were kidnapped here on 21 August 1999. We are searching for them - and today they would do it again, as the previous memorial plaque has been removed.

Dejan Slavic in detention up to 30 days (KIM radio, RTS, Blic, Politika, Vecernje Novosti)

The Basic Court in Pristina ordered detention up to 30 days to Dejan Slavic from Obilic on suspicion of allegedly committing a war crime against the civilian population during the Kosovo conflict, reports Serbian media.

Lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic, defense attorney for the arrested Slavic, told RTS that he received the court's decision on detention and that late on he would be able to give more details.

Prosecutor: We still do not have suspects for Ivanovic’s murder (RTS, KIM Radio)

Although more than a month passed since the Kosovo Special Prosecution took over the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, the prosecution still does not have suspects, KIM Radio reports.

Chairperson of the Special Prosecution, Ekrem Lutfiu told Pristina-based media that they have interviewed a number of witnesses.

“We have interviewed a significant number of people, but they all are witnesses. We are still in a phase of gathering evidence, and we still do not have suspects for the murder of Oliver Ivanovic,” Lutfiu said, KIM Radio reported.