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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The attorney of a young Serb man arrested by the so-called Kosovo Police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica last night said his client had had no physical contact with any officer and had been brutally beaten up during the arrest.

Attorney Milos Delevic said he would seek accountability for such treatment of his client, Rastko Nedeljkovic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The head of the EU Office in Kosovo-Metohija Tomas Szunyog spoke with newly-elected Srpska lista leader Zlatan Elek on Monday to discuss the upcoming local elections and the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA  - The director of the Clinical and Hospital Centre in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica said on Friday a humanitarian disaster was looming at the hospital without urgent shipments of medicines, medical oxygen and medical supplies and noted that the Pristina authorities would be responsible - and international organisations complicit - if that happened.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The director of the Clinical Hospital Centre in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica said on Wednesday the institution was in a catastrophic position as it was slowly running out of critical medicines.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The lawyer of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested by the Pristina authorities wants Pristina's PM Albin Kurti to appear in court as a defence witness in his client's trial.

In a statement to Tanjug, lawyer Dejan Vasic said Dragisa Milenkovic was suspected of war crimes allegedly committed in Kosovo-Metohija in 1998 and 1999.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA  - Serb Dalibor Spasic, a medical technician from Kosovska Mitrovica arrested by Pristina's police at the Jarinje administrative crossing a month ago, was released on bail on Monday, his lawyer told Tanjug.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The lawyer of Dusan Obrenovic, a Serb who was arrested and brutally beaten up by Pristina's police in Zvecan on Monday, said on Friday his client's physical condition was now more stable but that concerns for his safety remained.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The director of the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital, Zlatan Elek, said on Wednesday a 58-year-old Serb man wounded in Monday's clashes in Zvecan, a Serb-majority municipality in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, was in critical condition and remained in intensive care.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday special police forces of the so-called Kosovo had arrested three Post of Serbia employees in the north of Kosovo-Metohija earlier in the day.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, - Kosovo Serb Zlatan Arsic, a resident of the Ajnovce village near Kosovska Kamenica, has been arrested for alleged war crimes, Tanjug learns.

Arsic, 45, was arrested at the Bela Zemlja administrative crossing and the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija immediately assigned an attorney to him.