Mitrovica, Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's basic court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica has placed four young Serb men arrested on Tuesday for an alleged attack on an officer on duty in 30-day house arrest, attorney Nebojsa Vlajic told Tanjug on Wednesday evening.

Vlajic said the accused could be only partly satisfied with the court's decision.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's basic court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica has placed four young Serb men arrested on Tuesday for an alleged attack on an officer on duty in 30-day house arrest, attorney Nebojsa Vlajic told Tanjug on Wednesday evening.

Vlajic said the accused could be only partly satisfied with the court's decision.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A protest over an arrest of four young Serb men was held outside the police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday morning.

The protesters, who included the arrestees' family members, blew whistles and chanted "Release our children", holding banners that read "Kurtiland police" and "Is the EU concerned?"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic and the party's deputy president Ivan Orlovic, who were arrested in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday for alleged disruption of public order, have been released from detention after being handed fines, Tanjug's correspondent reports.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The attorney of a young Serb man arrested by the so-called Kosovo Police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica last night said his client had had no physical contact with any officer and had been brutally beaten up during the arrest.

Attorney Milos Delevic said he would seek accountability for such treatment of his client, Rastko Nedeljkovic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic was arrested by Pristina's police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, Tanjug's correspondent reported.

The so-called Kosovo Police has still not confirmed the reasons for the arrest.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday four young Serb men had been arrested by Pristina's police in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica last night.

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said in Pristina on Friday an agreement had been reached on the next Brussels meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, but did not specify a date.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police, which raided and illegally closed the building of the Kosovska Mitrovica provisional municipal authority on Friday, denied entry to the building on Monday to Serb employees who attempted to go to their workplaces.

The employees gathered outside the building and police SUVs are deployed in the area, a Tanjug correspondent reports.