Priština Archives

Important files, photographs and witness records that illuminate the history of the Kosovo war are being kept separately by human rights groups, amateur archivists and the State Archives, as the authorities haven’t managed to establish a proper central archive.

With a cast and crew from across the Balkans, Italy and France, a new play takes on the controversy surrounding Peter Handke’s 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature and asks, ‘Can we separate the art from the artist?’

Allegations of judicial interference and political pressure convulsed the European Union’s rule-of-law mission in Kosovo as a British lawyer who became a powerful judge despite lacking the required legal credentials was fired for misconduct.

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A US lawmaker proposed a resolution to Congress calling for the rapists who sexually assaulted Kosovo Albanian war survivor Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman to face justice and for Serbia to stop protecting war criminals.

Report by BIRN and other groups says Kosovo is not doing enough to re-train convicted fighters returned from war zones, so they can adapt back to normal life and work in the country.

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The Kosovo Judicial Council has suspended a judge in Kacanik after BIRN filmed him illegally negotiating with the parties outside court.

The deputy leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army Veterans’ Organisation, Nasim Haradinaj, told his trial in The Hague that there were no new revelations in leaked documents from war crimes cases that caused the charges against him.

Kosovo is trying to reintegrate returnees from the Islamic State. But its strategy on religious extremism must evolve too, experts say.

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Police said the arrested 19-year-old Kosovar woman was passionately committed to becoming an Islamist 'martyr' – and was actively involved in recruiting others to the cause.

Kosovo’s Court of Appeals upheld the verdict sentencing ex-fighter Zoran Djokic to 12 years in prison for his involvement in Serbian forces’ attacks on ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Peja/Pec in 1999.

Priština

Fractured History: Why Kosovo Has No Proper Wartime Archive

Kosovo Theatre Director Takes on Controversy over Handke Nobel Prize

How a British Judge Caused Turmoil at the EU’s Kosovo Mission

US Lawmaker Demands Punishment for Wartime Rape in Kosovo

Kosovo Failing to Rehabilitate Terrorism Convicts in Prison, BIRN Finds

Kosovo Suspends Judge Filmed Acting Illegally by BIRN

Kosovo Veterans’ Deputy Leader: ‘Nothing New’ in Leaked War Court Files

Kosovo Urged to Keep up its Guard against Radicalisation

Italian Police Arrest Kosovo Woman, ‘Fervent IS Supporter’

Kosovo Court Upholds Jailing of Serb Ex-Fighter for War Crimes

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