Kosovo police

Milan Radoicic, vice-president of the Srpska Lista party. Photo courtesy of N1.

"The Special Prosecution requested the withdrawal of the warrant and the court, acting upon the request, has lifted it," Kurtaj, the presiding judge in the Ivanovic murder case, told BIRN.

The prosecution declined to comment, saying that "this is an internal issue".

Kosovo police officer stands at the entrance of the Agency for Development of Agriculture on a raid on February 24, 2021. Photo: BIRN

Confirming the arrests, Chief Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi said that 10 of them are officials and two are ordinary citizens.

Former Kosovo police officer Fadil Syleviqi, 55, was found dead on Friday afternoon on a forest road leading from Pristina to Badovci Lake, police said.

Police said they were informed shortly after 2pm local time that a person with no signs of life was lying on the ground by the road.

Kosovo Police fined over 1,300 citizens in the last three days for not respecting government measures against COVID-19 - as political parties continue holding mass gatherings, preparing for the February 14 elections.

President Hashim Thaci said on Tuesday morning that he has asked Kosovo's Constitutional Court to rule against new measures restricting people's freedom of movement as part of attempts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

Police on Wednesday detained Zarko Zaric, who was a policeman in Kosovo before the war, for questioning as a witness in a war crime case.

Media reported that Zaric, a Serb who left Kosovo after the war but returned to live there again three years ago, was held in the village of Ljubozda in the Istog/Istok municipality and then taken to the capital Pristina to be interviewed.

An amended version of Oliver Ivanovic murder case indictment, which has been seen by BIRN, accuses his political party's administrator, Silvana Arsovic, of being part of an organised criminal group that was behind the killing.

A court in Pristina on Thursday sentenced Ikballe Berisha- Huduti to 30 days in detention after she posted comments on Facebook calling for unspecified "revenge" after the US assassinated Iranian General Qassem Suleimani.

The Director of Serbia's Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, on Thursday denounced the arson attack on the car of Srpska Lista presidency member Slavko Simic in northern Kosovo in the early hours of the day.

Kosovo Police have confirmed that their anti-terrorism unit arrested a woman named as Ikballe Berisha-Huduti on Tuesday after she called for revenge for the US targeted assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani.

Her social media posts on Facebook included one describing revenge an "obligation" that "has no border".