Kosovo organ trafficking suspect arrested
May 26, 2012
Moshe Harel was arrested in connection with the organ trafficking operation in Kosovo during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War the European Union Rule of Law Mission to Kosovo (EULEX) said Friday. A report authored by Council of Europe (COE) member Dick Marty details how criminals harvested the organs of civ....... [more] 
Kosovo draft criminal code violates press freedom: HRW
May 10, 2012
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the National Assembly of Kosovo Wednesday to remove certain provisions in the draft criminal code that they claim violate freedom of the press. In a letter, HRW claims that articles 37 and 38 of the draft code will significantly interfere with journalists' work. Arti....... [more]
Moving Towards an Efficient and Unified Legal System in Kosovo
May 8, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Tolaj, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of the sixth entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Tolaj discusses Kosovo's efforts to establish a more efficient judicial....... [more]
EU police arrested war crimes suspect in Kosovo
May 6, 2012
On May 6, 2010, European Union police officers arrested suspected war criminal, Sabit Geci, in Kosovo. Geci was accused of being a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which allegedly tortured prisoners at an Albanian prison during the 1998- 1999 Kosovo war. The European Union Rule of....... [more]
Kosovo politican acquitted on war crimes charges
May 2, 2012
Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj was acquitted Wednesday on charges of war crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia. Limaj allegedly ordered the torture and killings of Serbian detainees in 1999. He and three co-defendants were tried and acquitted befor....... [more]
Regulating the Legal Profession in the US and Kosovo
April 18, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Tolaj is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has served as a staff attorney at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Prishtina, Kosovo. Here, Tolaj compares the ways in which lawyers are regulated in the US and Kosovo....... [more]
The Institutionalization of Plea Bargaining in Kosovo
April 15, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Kushtrim Tolaj is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has served as a staff attorney at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative in Prishtina, Kosovo. Here, Tolaj discusses plea bargaining, and its role in Kosovo's efforts to create....... [more]
Kosovo presidential election ruled unconstitutional
March 28, 2012
On March 28, 2011, Kosovo's Constitutional Court declared the March 2011 presidential election of Behgjet Pacolli unconstitutional. The ruling was in response to allegations by opposition parliamentarians that there were irregularities in the voting process. The decision was a majority vote by the c....... [more]
Serbia military chief files libel suit against rights activist
March 19, 2012
Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic on Monday brought a libel suit against the head of a Serbian human rights group that accused him of failing to prevent war crimes in 1998 and 1999 during the war in Kosovo. Natasa Kandic, director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), accused Dikovic of war crimes i....... [more]
Serbia police arrested 9 suspected Kosovo war criminals
March 13, 2012
On March 13, 2010, Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor announced the arrest of nine suspects for war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War. The nine suspects were members of the Serbian paramilitary group Sakali and were accused of the systematic murders of 41 ethnic Albanians i....... [more]
EU Kosovo court issued guilty verdict in first war crimes case
March 3, 2012
On March 3, 2009, a court under the European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) issued its first verdict in a war crimes case against Kosovo Albanian Gani Gashi for atrocities committed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo-Serbia conflict. The Kosovo War pitted the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) against Ser....... [more]
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