Kosovska Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Local self-government representatives from northern Kosovo, which is home to Serb majority population, stated during a joint meeting in Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday that EULEX is indirectly hindering the implementation of the Brussels agreement.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government’s media relations office Milivoje Mihajlovic said Wednesday that Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP), against whom the Kosovo special prosecutor filed an indictment for war crimes and incitement to murder of 10 ethnic Albanians, should be released pending trial.

43 people arrested on "extremism" charges

PRIŠTINA -- 43 people have been arrested in Kosovo so far on suspicion that they belong to "extremist and terrorist organizations," 14 others are at large, said reports.

Making link between EU and Nazis abhorrent - spokesman

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Stickers proclaiming the EU mission in Kosovo was the enemy of the Serb people and calling on it "to go home" have appeared in Kosovska Mitrovica.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Posters claiming that the EU mission in Kosovo is the enemy of the Serb people and calling on EULEX to go home have been placed in numerous locations in Kosovska Mitrovica.

"Ivanović will not be released during trial"

BELGRADE -- Oliver Ivanović will remain in prison until the end of the court process against him due to begin on August 26, the daily Politika writes.

As reported by this newspaper, Ivanović will not be released pending the outcome of the trial despite the fact the Serbian government has provided guarantees.

ZUBIN POTOK - Head of the Zubin Potok municipal assembly Nemanja Jaksic said Monday that unfounded accusations and threats by EULEX that mayor Stevan Vulovic will be taken in for questioning, disturb the functioning of municipal assembly of Zubin Potok, a Serb-majority municipality in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

"Jihad suspects" under house arrest in Kosovo

PRIŠTINA -- The imam of the El-Kuddus Mosque in Gnjilane, Zekerija Cazimi, 34, has been placed under house arrest by the Basic Court in Priština.

He was arrested last week on suspicion of being "one of the chief instigators of Jihad in Kosovo."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Mayor of North Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic has called on the international community to invest maximum efforts into dealing with security issues and providing a safe environment for all the people in Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Kosovo police used a controlled explosion to neutralise an unexploded hand grenade in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Saturday, in an area mostly populated by Serbs.

The hand grenade was discovered early on Saturday outside the entrance to a jewelry shop in the Ivo Lola Ribar street, according to Tanjug's reporter at the scene.