Residents of Gorazdevac, a Serb majority village in the municipality of Peja/Pec, Kosovo, claim they are struggling to integrate into Kosovo society because of obstacles including language and infrastructure barriers. Kosovo Serbs from Gorazdevac, a village approximately seven kilometres from Peja/Pec municipality, requested at a public hearing also attended by BIRN and local media outlet…
The international community has expressed regret over Kosovo’s failure to incorporate recommendations into three crucial draft laws, on Public Officials, the Independent Media Commission, and the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, scheduled for a second reading in the Kosovo Assembly. The EU Office in Kosovo, in a press release on Wednesday, has expressed regret that three draft…
A new BIRN report highlights the shortcomings in legal structures and institutional responses in Kosovo when it comes to combating technology-facilitated and online gender-based violence. Kosovo’s lack of specific internet regulations has resulted in a legal vacuum which makes it difficult for authorities to effectively protect users from online abuses, a BIRN report published on Tuesday highlighted….
Informal Islamic Places of Worship, not supervised by Kosovo’s Islamic Community, have been opened in some neighbourhoods of Pristina, Gjilan, and Fushë Kosovë, BIRN found ten years after the Kosovo police had closed one such place in the capital, suspected of recruiting terrorists. Several informal Islamic places of worship have been established across Kosovo without…
Nenad Orlovic was jailed for 15 months and fined 12,000 euros for his role in violent attacks on NATO peacekeepers in Serb-majority northern Kosovo in May 2023. Prishtina Basic Court on Monday sentenced a Kosovo Serb, Nenad Orlovic, to 15 months’ imprisonment and fined him 12,000 euros for participating in violent clashes between Serb protesters…
With the aim of commemorating and raising awareness of the importance of the 1989 Trepca miners’ strike in Kosovo, miners from Trepca marched towards the ‘Reporting House’ exhibition on Thursday, where stories of the war in Kosovo, sacrifice, and resistance are displayed. On Thursday, miners from the Trepca mine in Mitrovica marched through the centre…
The accused A.P. has been found guilty by the Prishtina Basic Court for harassing KALLXO.com journalist Arjana Berisha via telephone, in August 2022, after the publication of a video recording showing a bus driver using a mobile phone. The Association of Journalists of Kosovo, AJK, reacted on Thursday after the Prishtina Basic Court issued a…
Kosovo prosecutor, Elza Bajrami, told BIRN’s annual Internet Freedom Meet conference about the ongoing investigation against contributors to a group on messaging app Telegram that was used to publish derogatory videos, ‘deep fake’ images and women’s personal information, explaining how key suspects were successfully arrested. Elza Bajrami, the Prishtina Basic Prosecution deputy Chief Prosecutor and…
The Basic Prosecution of Prishtina has initiated an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against Xhevat Krasniqi, a mathematics professor at the University of Prishtina, following a criminal complaint filed against him. The Basic Prosecution of Prishtina announced, on Tuesday, that it had initiated an investigation against Xhevat Krasniqi, mathematics professor at the University of…
Israel became the 50th country to grant visa-free travel for Kosovo citizens after an agreement was signed in Prishtina on Tuesday, marking a significant diplomatic development between the two countries. Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, and Israel’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Moshe Arbel, signed an agreement in Prishtina on Tuesday to allow Kosovo…