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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - EULEX Chief Prosecutor Jaroslava Novotina stated on Friday that EULEX has no secret arrest lists but she noted that investigations are being conducted against members of all ethnicities.

Prosecutor: EULEX has no secret arrest lists

PRIŠTINA -- EULEX Chief Prosecutor Jaroslava Novotina stated on Friday that the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, "has no secret arrest lists."

However, she noted that investigations are being conducted against members of all ethnicities.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Several people have been injured and a number of cars set on fire in the riots that broke out during the protest of ethnic Albanians at the southern side of the main bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica on Sunday, over the Peace Park being built at the bridge.

The Parliament in Pristina approved Wednesday a law to extend EU's rule-of-law mission to Kosovo, EULEX, until June 2016.

A special court will also be set up to investigate alleged war crimes by the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), according to BalkanInsight.

BELGRADE - Secretary of State at the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) Vladimir Bozovic met with new chief of the EULEX mission’s regional office in Belgrade Axel Jaenicke Wednesday to discuss a recent incident in Novi Sad when a police officer was shot by a man from Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

EULEX rejects accusations from Serbs in north

PRIŠTINA -- EULEX has rejected accusations against it coming from Serbs from northern Kosovo, who said that arrests carried out by the EU mission "represented kidnappings."

ZVECAN - Eulex is continuing the policy of disrespecting the request of legitimate Kosovo Serb representatives that the Kosovo police be recognised as the sole institution responsible for security and implementing the rule of law in northern Kosovo-Metohija, officials of the four municipalities in the north of the province and the Kosovo police in Region North have concluded after an extraordin

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Dragoljub Delibasic, a former police chief in the Serb-majority part of Kosovska Mitrovica, will be transferred from detention in Pristina to the detention centre in Kosovska Mitrovica, his lawyer Miodrag Brkljac confirmed on Friday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - EULEX spokesperson Dragana Nikolic Solomon told Tanjug that leader of the Citizens' Initiative Serbia Democracy Justice (SDP) Oliver Ivanovic was transferred on Wednesday from the Pristina detention unit to the one in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Nikolic Solomon underlined that the EULEX mission assisted the Kosovo police in Ivanovic's transfer.

PRISTINA - Oliver Ivanovic, one of Serb leaders from northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), began a hunger strike in a detention unit in Pristina on Tuesday, said his defense attorney Nebojsa Vlajic.

Ivanovic's only request is that he be transferred to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica, Vlajic noted.