UN Court

The court hearing Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s slander case against opposition Social Democrats leader Zoran Zaev refused on Monday to accept the recording of the telephone call as evidence.

It also refused to question Gruevski’s former associate Den Doncev, a potentially key witness for the defence, whose voice is also on the tape, the opposition alleges.

Warrants for arrest of Serb leaders in north

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Acting EULEX Chief Joelle Vachter said Sunday that warrants have been issued for the arrest of Zubin Potok Mayor Stevan Vulović and former Mayor Slaviša Ristić.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Acting EULEX Chief Joelle Vachter stated on Sunday that warrants have been issued for the arrest of Zubin Potok Mayor Stevan Vulovic and former mayor Slavisa Ristic.

A new investigation will be launched into the murder of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey, killed by an officer’s bullet during an interrogation at an Istanbul post, seven years after the fatal shooting that caused public outcry, a lawyer has said.

Hasret Kara, 31, mother of four, can finally breathe a sigh of relief: Her husband Yakup Kara, who stabbed her 43 times, was arrested Aug. 27 following a public campaign and many nights during which her neighbors guarded her house.

ZVECAN - Reacting to yet another extension of custody for leader of the Citizens’ Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic, his lawyer Nebojisa Vlajic said Wednesday that the head of EULEX was interfering in the work of judicial authorities in Kosovo, as he had been announcing that extension for a few days before the decision had been made.

Lawyer: EULEX head interferes with judiciary

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Oliver Ivanović's his lawyer Nebojša Vlajić has said that the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, was interfering in the work of judicial authorities.

The family of a young Istanbul architect who committed suicide in 2010 after being subjected to police torture has submitted an individual complaint to Turkey’s Constitutional Court, after the Council of State approved a decision that rejected the relatives’ appeal regarding “insufficient punishment for police officers.”

Court gives Thaci's party right to propose assembly speaker

PRIŠTINA -- There will be no snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has decided, Tanjug is reporting.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Leader of the Citizen Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic has pleaded not guilty before the court of first instance in Kosovska Mitrovica on all counts of the indictment for involvement in war crimes in 1999 and 2000.

"I am absolutely not guilty," he replied to judge Roxana Comsa.