Kosovo's Court of Appeals

Pristina Basic Court found Naser Kelmendi guilty on Thursday and sentenced him to four years and eight months of imprisonment on drug trafficking charges.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the verdict finding former Serb reservist policeman Nenad Arsic guilty of war crimes and confirmed his six-year prison sentence.

Arsic was found guilty of committing the crimes on May 21, 1999 during a police operation against Kosovo Albanian civilians in Pristina's Emshir neighbourhood.

Ivan Todosijevic, a Kosovo Serb MP from the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party, did not appear on Wednesday at noon as ordered by the court to begin his two-year prison sentence for inciting ethnic, racial or religious intolerance.

Florent Gashi, spokesperson for the Kosovo Correctional Service told BIRN that "the person in question so far has not appeared to serve his sentence".

"We have come to express our revulsion and dissatisfaction with the reduction of the sentence of the criminal Darko Tasic. We will now go inside with a group of five family members and talk to the president of the court and see what he will tell us," Selami Hoti, a representative of one of the families of the victims of the Krushe e Vogel/ Mala Krushe massacre, told BIRN.

Kosovo's Court of Appeals on Tuesday halved the prison sentence handed down against a Serbian former police officer over the massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in March 1999.

Kosovo's Court of Appeals in Pristina. Photo: BIRN/Atdhe Mulla.