Vetëvendosje

Women members of Kosovo's main opposition Vetevendosje party have highlighted sexual harassment cases in their own working environment, in a bid to raise awareness of the wider phenomenon in the country.

Albin Kurti, the newly-elected leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination), the biggest opposition party in Kosovo, told BIRN on Thursday that he believes that Serbs were behind last week's murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.

Days ahead the visit of the Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to Kosovo, it remains unclear if and when Kosovo's parliament will vote to ratify the agreement on border demarcation between the two countries.

Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday found four MPs from Kosovo's main opposition Vetevendosje party - Albin Kurti, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, Albulena Haxhiu and Faton Topalli - guilty of letting off tear gas in parliament on 2015.

None will go to jail as all of them received conditional sentences.

The former leader of Kosovo's main opposition party, MP Albin Kurti and another Vetevendosje MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, were released from detention on Friday after their arrest on November 24 on charges of letting off tear gas in parliament on 2015.

Albin Kurti, a member of the Kosovo Assembly from the opposition Self-Determination, has been arrested.

The arrest took place in front of the Assembly, Tanjug is reporting on Friday, citing RTK2.

Two other Self-Determination members of the Assembly, Albulena Haxhiu and Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, have also been arrested.

Kosovo police arrested three Vetevenedosje MPs, Albin Kurti, former leader of Vetevendosje, Albulena Haxhiu and Donika Kadaj Bujupi, at around 10am on Friday in Pristina while they were going to parliament to attend a session.

A Kosovo judge clarified on Thursday that he had issued arrest warrants for three opposition Vetevendosje MPs, including Albin Kurti, after they failed to show up for their trial the day before for throwing tear gas in parliament.

Preliminary results from Kosovo's Central Election Commission, CEC, held good news for the opposition Vetevendosje party and the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK - and for the governing Alliance of the Future of Kosovo, AAK. It was bad night for the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK.

The Basic Court in Pristina found four Vetevendosje activists, including an MP, guilty on Friday of firing an explosive device at the Kosovo parliament building on August 4, 2016.