Analyst Dusan Janjic said that Oliver Ivanovic, will have to await the establishment of a special unit, which is assumed to be formed by the end of the year, but says that he would not be surprised if it would happen in the spring.
MITROVICA - I am absolutely sure that I will prove that I am innocent, but until then I have to pay a high price, told Vecernje Novosti Oliver Ivanovic, one of the Serbian leaders in Kosovo, who is held in custody by the Kosovo authorities from 27 January.
He thinks he's still in prison because of the "artificial political balance", as "proceedings are on-going or are being prepared "against ethnic Albanian politicians in Kosovo.
The Court of Appeals in Priština has rejected an appeal filed against a decision to keep Oliver Ivanović in prison, his party, GI SDP, announced on Thursday.
The court rejected the appeal three weeks after it was submitted, although there was a deadline of 48 hours, a statement noted, and added:
"This shows that Kosovo courts are not interested in the rights of the accused, or in what the appeal said, because they already have their decision."
Representatives of the Serbian National Council of Northern Kosovo and Metohija submitted today a petition signed by 18,000 citizens of Kosovo and Metohija requiring the arrested Serbs to be released pending trial.
"The arrested Serbs, Dragoljub Delibasic, Oliver Ivanovic, Radovan Radic and others must be insured the right to a fair trial and the possibility to prove their innocence while released pending trial," says the letter, delivered along with the petition to the Head of EULEX Mission Bernd Borchardt and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Farid Zarif.