Dragoljub Delibasic

Ivanovic to remain in custody for 2 more months

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Thrusday decided to keep Oliver Ivanovic in custody for another two months.

The trial for crimes allegedly committed by the Serb political leader in Kosovo in 1999 and 2000 also resumed today.

Prosecution witness fails to implicate Ivanovic

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A prosecution witness in the trial of Oliver Ivanovic on Tuesday did not implicate the defendant in the April 1999 events in Kosovska Mitrovica.

Ivanovic has been indicted in a case concerning the murder of four ethnic Albanians.

Isa Mustafa, a key witness in the high-profile trial of Ivanovic, told the court in Mitrovica on Wednesday that the Serb politician was one of a group of paramilitaries who seized him and other ethnic Albanians on April 14, 1999, when the killings took place.

BELGRADE - The trial of leader of the Citizens' Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs accused to have committed grave crimes against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) during 1999 and 2000 will begin in late January of next year.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - An indictment by the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office against five Serbs lists a war crime committed during the war in Kosovo, in April 1999, and aggravated murder of ethnic Albanians in February 2000.

The accused pleaded not guilty on all counts at the first hearing on Tuesday.

ZVECAN - Reacting to yet another extension of custody for leader of the Citizens’ Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic, his lawyer Nebojisa Vlajic said Wednesday that the head of EULEX was interfering in the work of judicial authorities in Kosovo, as he had been announcing that extension for a few days before the decision had been made.

Lawyer: EULEX head interferes with judiciary

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Oliver Ivanović's his lawyer Nebojša Vlajić has said that the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, was interfering in the work of judicial authorities.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Leader of the Citizen Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic has pleaded not guilty before the court of first instance in Kosovska Mitrovica on all counts of the indictment for involvement in war crimes in 1999 and 2000.

"I am absolutely not guilty," he replied to judge Roxana Comsa.

Ivanović, other accused Serbs plead not guilty

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Oliver Ivanović has pleaded not guilty before the court of first instance in Kosovska Mitrovica on all counts of the indictment against him.

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo is accused of involvement in war crimes committed in 1999 and 2000.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The first hearing in the case against leader of the Citizens' Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs suspected of committing war crimes and aggravated murder will be held at the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, EULEX spokeswoman Dragana Nikolic-Solomon said Monday.