Oliver Ivanovic

Oliver Ivanovic's health condition has improved, but remains unstable, Milan Jakovljevic, a doctor at the Health Center in Kosovska Mitrovica, has said.

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo who heads the GI SDP party has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks and was late on Thursday rushed to the hospital's intensive care unit for coronary disease patients.

Oliver Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajkovic has said that the health condition of his client is becoming "increasingly more serious."

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo, who heads Civil Initiative SDP, was taken to the hospital over the weekend where he continues his hunger strike, started on August 7.

Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic's condition has significantly deteriorated on the seventh day of his hunger strike in a Kosovska Mitrovica jail.

His wife Milena Ivanovic-Popovic who visited him on Thursday said he had lost seven kilograms, and that his physical condition has been "significantly deteriorating."

The Serbian government called on the EU to intervene after Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, who is on trial for war crimes, was remanded in custody again.

A group of Kosovo Serbs protested in front of the EU rule-of-law mission’s offices in Pristina, demanding politician Oliver Ivanovic’s release pending the outcome of his war crimes trial.

The extension of detention for Oliver Ivanovic - who has embarked on a hunger strike - is "scandalous," Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Friday.

Civic Initiative (GI) SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, who is detained in a Kosovska Mitrovica prison, on Friday started a hunger strike.

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo, who is on trial accused of war crimes, is demanding to be released pending the outcome of the process.

The detention of Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic has been extended until October 6, said his wife Milena Popovic-Ivanovic.

She told Tanjug on Thursday that the decision was made by a panel of EULEX judges from the Municipal Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, and that the request filed by Ivanovic's lawyers to set him free pending the end of the trial was rejected as unfounded.

A witness in the trial of Oliver Ivanovic told a Mitrovica court he took part in the negotiations between the accused and NATO over transporting several Kosovo Albanian families from their homes during the unrest in Mitrovica in February 2000.

Oliver Ivanovic, who was arrested in late January of last year, says that he was "not framed either by Albanians or Serbs" - but by "politicos from EULEX."

The leader of the Civil Initiative (GI) SDP is currently on trial in Kosovska Mitrovica on war crimes charges.