Kosovo Liberation Army

Serbian authorities have released Hilmi Kelmendi after detaining him last Friday on a war crimes arrest warrant.

Kelmendi, suspected of committing war crimes in Kosovo, was arrested while entering Serbia from Croatia. Beta is quoting the KTV broadcaster that reported his lawyer Sead Spahovic confirmed his release.

Kosovo’s Prosecutorial Council said politically-motivated criticism of the war crimes indictment of guerrilla commander turned opposition party leader Fatmir Limaj is damaging to the rule of law.

The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime has halted an investigation against Kosovo Police official Nihat Thaci, who was released on Tuesday.

Tanjug reported this late the same day.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime has halted an investigation against Kosovo Police director Nihat Thaci, who was released on Tuesday, Tanjug has learned.

Thaci had been in custody since his September 28 arrest pursuant to an order issued by the High Court in Nis in 2010.

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution filed an war crimes indictment against former guerrilla commander turned MP Fatmir Limaj over the murder of two Kosovo Albanian civilians in October 1998.

MPs in Pristina approved a resolution defining the Kosovo Liberation Army’s wartime struggle as just and fair after a debate sparked by the war crimes convictions of ten former KLA fighters.

THE HAGUE - The lower house of the Dutch parliament has approved a Foreign Ministry proposal to headquarter in The Hague the special court set up to try crimes committed by the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army", the Pristina Kosovo sot daily reports.

International media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday called on the Kosovo authorities to protect Leonard Kerquki, editor-in-chief of tabloid newspaper Gazeta Express, after a television documentary he produced about crimes against Serbs attracted a series of death threats.

THE HAGUE - The lower house of the Dutch parliament has approved a Foreign Ministry proposal to headquarter in The Hague the special court set up to try crimes committed by the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army", the Pristina Kosovo sot daily reports.

The appeals court upheld the verdict convicting ten former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, including Sylejman Selimi, of crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 conflict.