The decision implies that even the previous act he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment is annulled.
News of his release from all charges confirmed to Radio Europe his attorney, Nebojsa Vlajq.
The Supreme Court's decision is in sharp form, no more complaints or procedures, Mr. Todosijevic is a free man”, Vlajic said.
Ivan Todosijevic was tried twice for “spread hatred and intolerance”. The first time he was sentenced to two years in prison, but the Supreme Court of Kosovo ruled at the end of 2021 to bring the trial back first.
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In a repeat trial at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, he has been sentenced to one year in prison.
The trial against him has been held because of the language of hatred. Todosijevic declared in March 2019 that the reason for the <x0-aggression of NATO” against Yugoslav Army targets in 1999 was the so-called humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and the fabricated massacre of Recak”.
Todosijevic is a member of the headship of the Serbian List, the largest party of Kosovo Serbs to have Belgrade's backing. He is also chairman of the Serbian parallel municipality of Zvecan.
At the time Todosijevic made statements about the Recak massacre, he held the post of Minister of Self-government Management Lokal in the Government of Kosovo. He was later dismissed by then Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.
Serb parallel municipalities in the north work from alternative locations
In addition to naming as “triation” the events in Recak, statements made on the 20th anniversary of the start of NATO bombings on then-Yugoslav Yugoslavia, Todosijevic said also that the “Albanian terrorists, who invented all of them, committed the biggest crimes in Kosovo and Metohija, for which no one has been imprisoned and have not served as a responsibility to date<3>
NATO launched attacks on Serb targets to prevent violence exercised by Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces against Albanians in Kosovo. This event preceded the killing of 45 Albanians in the village of Recak of Shtime.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq has publicly defended Todosijevic, saying he believes “Recak is fiction” and that Serbs in Kosovo do not have the right to freedom of speech.
