War Crime Trial

Armed police officers in Belgrade on June 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANDREJ CUKIC

Serbia Sentences Kosovo Albanian to Six Years for Killing Villagers in 1999

Six-year jail sentence imposed on Nezir Mehmetaj for war crimes against non-Serbs in a Kosovo village in 1999 condemned by the speaker of Kosovo's parliament – who calls the charges 'invented and arbitrary'.

Fatmir Sopi testifying on Monday, October 28, 2024. Photo: Livestream/Kosovo Specialist Chambers.

KLA Was Voluntary Army, Witness Tells Thaci Trial in The Hague

Former KLA brigade founder bolsters defence case in ex-President Hashim Thaci's trial by telling the Hague-based special court that the KLA was formed on a voluntary basis and did not have the 'discipline of NATO armies'.

Ekrem Bajrovic in court on Friday, July 19, 2024. Photo: BIRN/Verone Zymberi

Court Finds Kosovo Bosniak Guilty of War Crimes

Ekrem Bajrovic was sentenced on Friday to 12 years' imprisonment for his role in the beating, torture and killing of ethnic Albanian civilians who were fleeing towards Albania.

Kosovo Begins Two War Crime Trials of Serbs in Absentia

The trials of former Serbian policeman Milovan Jovanovic and former Serbian military reservist Dejan Racic, both accused of war crimes against ethnic Albanians, opened in Pristina in the defendants' absence.

Kosovo Court Acquits Serb of Wartime Assault

Pristina Basic Court cleared Zlatan Arsic of violently assaulting a man and burning his house in an attack by Serbian police in the Kamenice/Kamenica area during the Kosovo war in March 1999.

Kosovo’s Renowned Photojournalist ‘Freezes’ History on Flag’s Double-Headed Eagle Wings

BIRN report presentation “Challenges of Counter-Terrorism Prevention Mechanisms in Kosovo,” on Dec 17 in Prishtina. Photo: BIRN

BIRN Report Highlights Kosovo’s Struggle to Detect Early Warning Signs of Terrorism and Radicalisation

Pictures of children killed during the war are on display at the exhibition 'Once upon a time and never again' in memory of children killed during the 1998-2000 war, in Prishtina, Kosovo. Photo: EPA/Valdrin Xhemaj

Kosovo Government Unveils Plan for Museum of Genocide

Kosovo, Serbia Pledge to Implement Declaration on Wartime Missing Persons

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