Djuric: Oliver Ivanovic is "the last political prisoner in Europe"

Serbia is asking that Oliver Ivanovic is set free "instantly and completely," Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said on Wednesday.

In a statement for Tanjug, Djuric described the Serb politician from northern Kosovo as "the last political prisoner in Europe."

"Ivanovic is a man who is behind bars only because he belongs to the Serb people in Kosovo in Metohija and is the leader of a part of it - in order to create a fake balance in prosecuting war criminals," he said.

According to Djuric, Ivanovic was put in prison and separated from his family "although he is guilty of nothing" - while real war criminals walk freely around Kosovo and Metohija and the world, "pretending to be statesmen, representatives of institutions, those who reconcile nations."

The Basic Court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday ordered Ivanovic, who spent the...