Basic Court

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica will on Wednesday decide whether to keep Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic in custody after the Serbian government reiterated guarantees of his availability to judicial authorities.

Ivanovic has spent over three years in custody since his arrest in January 2014.

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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."

The Appeals Court in Pristina has decided to annul the guilty verdict passed against Oliver Ivanovic and order a trial, B92's correspondent reported Thursday.

Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic has confirmed the news for Tanjug.

The Basic Court in Subotica has ordered two Pakistani citizens held in detention for up to 30 days.

They were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting an underage girl in this northern Serbian town.

GRACANICA/PRIZREN - Kosovo's Constitutional Court ended 16 years of dispute in a property case with a ruling deciding it in favor of Visoki Decani Monastery, confirming its ownership rights to over 24 hectares (59 acres) of the disputed land, the The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Diocese of Raska and Prizren said in a release on Saturday.
    

The Basic Court in Novi Sad has declared Nenad Canak not guilty of endangering Pavle Lesanovic's safety and inflicting light injuries to him during a fight.

Canak, the leader of the League of the Social-Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), was charged with involvement in the incident that took place in front of a tavern in Novi Sad in September 2012.

Oliver Ivanovic will be allowed to leave jail on Wednesday "for several hours" in order to attend his 5-year-old child's birthday celebrations.

The decision was made by the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, Radio Kontakt Plus has reported.

The Basic Court in Pec ordered four men arrested near the Serbian Orthodox monastery Visoki Decani on Sunday detained for one month.

The Basic Prosecution on the town of Pec in Kosovo suspects that one of the men arrested in front of the Visoki Decani monastery had fought in Syria.

Several hundred Serbs took to the streets of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica to support politician Oliver Ivanovic, who was jailed for ordering the murder of ethnic Albanians in April 1999.