A former senior health ministry official has denied misusing his position by signing a license for a Kosovo clinic where illegal kidney-trading is alleged to have taken place in 2008.
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A Serbian police officer denied forcing Kosovo Albanians out of the Pec/Peja area during wartime, claiming his forces only wanted to help people to return to their homes.
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A witness in the high-profile ‘Llapi Group’ war crimes case denied he was beaten or tortured at a Kosovo Liberation Army detention centre in Llapashtica/Lapastica.
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One of the defendants in the trial for alleged illicit kidney-trading at Kosovo’s Medicus clinic pleaded guilty to illegal medical activity while another declared he was innocent.
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Renowned Serbian film director Emir Kusturica has announced that his new movie will deal with human organ trafficking, the focus of a current high-profile trial in Kosovo.
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Protesters rallied outside Kosovo’s parliament against “degrading language” used by lawmakers in a debate about wartime rape victims that sparked widespread controversy.
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Serbia’s appeals court upheld a verdict finding two policemen not guilty of war crimes against the Bitici brothers, three Kosovo Liberation Army volunteers from the US who were killed in 1999.
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A former Kosovo Liberation Army commander on trial for allegedly torturing Albanian civilians at a wartime detention centre denied detainees were ill-treated during their arrest.
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A former Kosovo Liberation Army commander on trial for allegedly torturing Albanian civilians at a wartime detention centre accused UN investigators of falsifying the charges.
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A witness who was ten years old when the Serbian ‘Jackals’ paramilitary unit attacked his village in Kosovo testified at the fighters’ trial how they killed his neighbours.
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The retrial of three ex-Kosovo Liberation Army commanders for jailing and torturing Albanian civilians began with the defendants arguing wartime detention centres were legal.
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Pristina’s leaders thanked NATO for launching its bombing campaign 14 years ago to end the Kosovo war, and stressed their hope of gaining membership of the military alliance.
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Serbia commemorated its dead 14 years after the NATO air strikes that ended the Kosovo war, but the exact number of people killed has yet to be properly established.
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The prosecution at the trial for alleged illicit kidney-trading at Kosovo’s Medicus clinic has made new allegations of grievous bodily harm and fraud against the defendants.
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MPs decided not to investigate alleged rights abuses during the prosecution of former Kosovo guerrillas accused of killing a family for revenge in the high-profile ‘Kiqina’ case.
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Hashim Thaci 'From 'Snake' to Prime Minister
Thaci, born in 1968, joined the Albanian independence cause as a student, becoming one of the leaders of the protest movement in the early 1990s. As the Serbian crackdown intensified, he left for Switzerland, studying history and international relations in Zurich.