Tefiq Mustafa is assigned a 30-day detention measure

The Supreme Court of Belgrade's preliminary procedure judge has assigned Kosovo citizens Tefik Mustaf, the 30-day detention measure.

The M.T. defendant is charged with committing war crimes against the civilian population, as co-chairman”, is said in decision.

According to the ruling, the detention measure is scheduled because of the risk of escaping the defendant.

The decision could be appealed after three days to enter into force of the decision.

Tefiq Mustafa It was arrested on June 1st by Serbian authorities, under suspicion of “war crimes”.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, has said on June 1st that Mustafa “member of the Parliamentary Army of Kosovo, is mentioned in statements of witnesses as participants in the kidnapping of police officials Goran Marinkovic, Zivojin Paviq and Predrag Milosevic, on June 19, 1999, in Pristina-Gjilan's magistrate, and later their traces have disappeared”.

Kosovo's Foreign Ministry has considered Mustafa's detention an arbitrator and has called for the international factor for its release.

In the past three years, several Kosovo citizens have been arrested in Serbia, as it has been said, allegations that they committed crimes during the war in Kosovo in 1998-99.

On 17 April of this year, Serbian authorities have arrested the other Kosovo citizen, Sadik Durak, under the same suspicion, at one of the Kosovo-Serbia border crossings.

His family has rejected the accusations, saying that Duraku lived in England at that time, along with his family.

Duraku has been arrested at a border crossing between Croatia and Serbia, and a Serbian court has assigned the detention measure the same month.

Earlier in the year, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has accused Serbia of, as he has said, unjust, deliberate and malicious arrests of Kosovo citizens. /rel

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