Persecution of Serbs

Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej on Thursday issued his message ahead of January 7, when Christmas in celebrated in Serbia.

The US State Department said that those responsible for moving the bodies of Kosovo Albanian civilians killed in the 1999 war to mass graves in Serbia should be brought to justice.

In his sermon, the patriarch said that the ties between Serbia and Russia are unbreakable.

The Kosovo Special Prosecution announced that there is no evidence to support allegations that Serb minister Nenad Rikalo tortured ethnic Albanians during the war.

Vucic also announced his visit to Croatia for November, according to B92. 

Asked what he saw as the main problem in relations between the two countries, he told Vecerni List that he "sees these problems, but does not understand them." 

A forensics expert told the retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo that two patients had their kidneys removed for no medical reason.

A controversial memorial plaque that was placed last year near the site of the former death camp Jasenovac in Croatia has been moved to another location.

Serbian Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic says that the country's court are capable of giving a fair trial to Albanian citizen Ismail Morina.

Morina, wanted in Serbia for inciting ethnic and racial hatred, is currently held in Croatia, whose Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that he can be extradited.

The Croatian embassy in Belgrade on Monday received Serbia's protest note.

The note was given to the charge d'affairs over the events that unfolded during Saturday's rally in Zagreb of the Autochthonous Croatian Rights Party (A-HSP).

Marking the 19th anniversary of the disappearance of two Serbian radio journalists in Kosovo, a journalists’ association has demanded a fresh investigation into their deaths - and those of other journalists abducted and killed in Kosovo.