Basic Court

Kosovo town mayor placed under house arrest

PRIŠTINA -- Stevan Vulovic, mayor of the Zubin Potok municipality in northern Kosovo, was placed under a 30-day house arrest, the Pristina-based electronic media reported.

The Albanian language broadcasters are citing EULEX spokesperson Dragana Nikolic Solomon.

BELGRADE - Stevan Vulovic, mayor of the Zubin Potok municipality in northern Kosovo, has voluntarily appeared for questioning before the public prosecutor of the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, EULEX spokeswoman Dragana Nikolic-Solomon has told Tanjug.

Vulovic is charged with organizing the escape of Slobodan Sovrlic from the police station in Zubin Potok.

The Basic Court in Podgorica on Wednesday began hearing the case against Calovic, the director of prominent Montenegrin watchdog group MANS, who is accused of defamation. 

Calovic is being sued by former Serbian official Popovic after a series of articles in the Montenegrin edition of Belgrade-based tabloid Informer in which she was accused of bestiality.

BELGRADE - The trial of leader of the Citizens' Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs accused to have committed grave crimes against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) during 1999 and 2000 will begin in late January of next year.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - EULEX stated in a release on Wednesday that an international judge rejected as ungrounded the defense motion to dismiss the indictment filed with the Basic Court in Mitrovica against the leader of the Citizens' Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" (GI SDP) and four more Serbs.

PRISTINA - The Pristina Court of Appeals said on Tuesday that it has placed under house arrest seven imams suspected of having committed a crime against Kosovo's constitutional order and security.

Initially, the Pristina Basic Court remanded the suspects in two-month custody on October 17.

Kosovo's Court of Appeal on October 1 approved the complaint of the defence of 11 men - seized in a roundup of suspected terrorist supporters - and ordered the Basic Court to review its order to keep them in detention them on remand.

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BELGRADE - As of today, judges of the Basic Court in Leskovac have all the facilities required for efficient work, Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said Wednesday after visiting the newly renovated court building in Leskovac, the ministry said in a release.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The first hearing in the case against leader of the Citizens' Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs suspected of committing war crimes and aggravated murder will be held at the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, EULEX spokeswoman Dragana Nikolic-Solomon said Monday.

PRISTINA - The imam of the El-Kuddus Mosque in Gnjilane, Zekerija Cazimi, 34, has been placed under house arrest by the Basic Court in Pristina on suspicion of being one of the chief instigators of the jihad in Kosovo.

The court also placed another suspect, 27-year-old Liridon Kabasi from the village of Polac in the Srbica municipality, northern Kosovo, under house arrest.