Basic Court

The Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica released two police officers who were arrested few days ago on suspicion that they did not properly protect the crime scene where Oliver Ivanovic was killed, reports "Koha Ditore".

The news was confirmed by the Chief Prosecutor of the Basic Court's Office in Mitrovica, Sucri Sulja.

Belgrade-based Beta agency reported this early on Monda, citing Pristina-based Albanian language website gazetaexpress.com.

According to the report, the officers are "D.M. and Z.J."

After a six-hour hearing, the Basic Court in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, on Monday evening released two policemen who had been arrested on suspicion of having manipulated evidence in the investigation into the murder of Ivanovic.

The prosecution asked for 30 days' custody for the two officers on grounds of suspected evidence manipulation.

On suspicion that they did not properly protect the crime scene two members of the Kosovo police station in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica have been detained, said the prosecutor conducting investigation into the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, Njazi Redza.

Kosovo Police on Saturday arrested two police officers from the Serb-run northern part of the town of Mitrovica on suspicion that they manipulated evidence at the scene of Oliver Ivanovic's murder in January.

After the Basic Court in Pristina jailed Naser Kelmendi for six years, after finding him guilty of running a narcotics operation, Andrew Hughes, prosecutor for the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, said some witnesses had been threatened to pressurize them to change their testimonies.

A court in Kosovo on Thursday found Naser Kelmendi guilty of the "unauthorised possession with intent to distribute, sell and/or export/import dangerous narcotic drugs" and jailed him for six years.

The Basic Court in Pristina found Kelmendi not guilty of the murder of Ramiz Delacic, however, or of organised crime and other charges related to narcotics.

The Basic Court in Gjilane in Kosovo has set free nine men accused of attacking the Serbian police checkpoint in Dobrosin in 2012, wounding one officer.

Tanjug said this on Thursday, citing the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Gazeta Express as reporting that the court found "no evidence that they carried out the attack."

One is closed, while there is no information about the three remaining, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) said it learned.

These are considerably different data compared to those UNS received from EULEX a month ago when we were told that there were only two open investigations.

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.