Nehat Thaci

Kosovo government officials have yet to explain what they plan to do with the two-metre-high wall that Kosovo Serbs have erected on the northern side of the Ibar river in the divided northern town of Mitrovica.

A resolution issued by the Kosovo parliament on December 23 ordered "the demolition of the illegal wall in the northern part of Mitrovica to happen within January 2017".

Kosovo’s parliament passed a resolution calling for the release of Mitrovica police director Nehat Thaci, who was arrested in Serbia on terrorism charges, and for the EU to intervene to ensure he is freed.

Kosovo police's director in the Mitrovica area, Nehat Thaci, arrested on terrorism charges, was transferred from the prison in Niš to Belgrade for the hearing.

Thaci underwent questioning at the Special Court, denying the accusations, while his attorneys claim that he was illegally arrested and that the proceeding is being intentionally delayed.

Nehat Thaci told a court hearing in Belgrade on Monday that he denied charges accusing him of expelling a Serb family from the village of Lipljan during the Kosovo war in July 1999 and threatening them with a bomb.

The Serbian interior ministry said on Thursday that Nehat Thaci had been arrested the previous evening on terrorism charges on a warrant dating back to 2010, but did not give any more information about the allegations against him.