Oliver Ivanovic

SDP Civil Initiative leader Oliver Ivanovic has been released from house arrest. The Serb politician from northern Kosovo will be free pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of war crimes.

Ivanovic will now have to report to a police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica twice a week.

SDP Civil Initiative leader Oliver Ivanovic has been released from house arrest.

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo will be free pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of war crimes.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The retrial of Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic began before the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court Friday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The retrial of Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, which began before the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court on Friday with the opening arguments of the defence and the prosecution, has been scheduled to resume on April 27 with witness statements.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic said Wednesday he was hoping his retrial, scheduled to begin on Friday before the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, would be fair and efficient and that he would prove he was not responsible for the crime he was suspected of.

The retrial of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic began with the defendant again insisting he is not guilty of ordering the killings of nine ethnic Albanians in 1999.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The retrial of Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic is scheduled to begin on March 24 with introductory arguments of the prosecutor and the defence before the Basic Court of Kosovska Mitrovica.

A preparatory hearing was held on March 7.

Tanjug file photo, Boki

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The international panel of judges of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court on Wednesday ordered a house arrest for Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic.

The Pristina Court of Appeals last week ordered a retrial in Ivanovic's case, throwing out a first-instance ruling sentencing him to nine years in prison for war crimes against civilians committed in 1999.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica will on Wednesday decide whether to keep Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic in custody after the Serbian government reiterated guarantees of his availability to judicial authorities.

Ivanovic has spent over three years in custody since his arrest in January 2014.

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Serbia is asking that Oliver Ivanovic is set free "instantly and completely," Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said on Wednesday.

In a statement for Tanjug, Djuric described the Serb politician from northern Kosovo as "the last political prisoner in Europe."