Three members of Kosovo police, KPS, were injured while apparently trying to apprehend Albin Kurti, KPS spokesman Baki Kelani stated. “Based on the information they had, around 17:30 (on Monday) in Priština police tried to pull over a vehicle in which, according to our information, was a person for whom the court had issued an arrest warrant. The vehicle did not stop and three police officers were injured on the occasion,†the spokesman said.
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Wanted terrorist arrested in Sarajevo
March 25th, 2010 |
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A man found guilty of terrorist activities in Serbia was arrested in Bosnia on a Serbian Interpol office arrest warrant. The man was identified as Nedžad Bulić, 33, a native of Tutin, in southwestern Serbia.
Ganić arrest confirmed; Serbia seeks extradition
March 1st, 2010 |
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Former Muslim member of the Bosnian Presidency Ejup Ganić was detained on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia, as he was attempting to leave the UK. This has been confirmed today in London, but also in Sarajevo.
Äukanović on crime case: We don’t take orders
February 17th, 2010 |
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Montenegro wants cooperation in fighting against organized crime, but it does not take orders from other countries, says its PM Milo Äukanović. Commenting on the case of Darko Å arić, wanted on an Interpol arrest warrant, Äukanović stated that Podgorica was ready to cooperate with all countries in combating organized crime but that it, as he put it, “did not take orders from other addresses“.
Taylor starts war crimes defence
July 13th, 2009 |
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Lawyers for Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia on trial for crimes against humanity, have begun his defence.
He denies 11 charges, including murder, rape and torture, at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.
Prosecutors say he controlled rebels who carried out atrocities during Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war.
Mr Taylor, who denies the charges, is expected to give evidence in his own defence on Tuesday.
He is the first African leader to be tried by an international court.
Claire Carlton-Hanciles, of the court’s defence office, told the BBC that Mr Taylor was ready to defend himself.
"Mr Taylor is ready and his lawyers who were employed by the office have ensured that that they have prepped him for the past month-and-a-half," she said.
TAYLOR TIMELINE- 1989: Launches rebellion in Liberia
- 1991: RUF rebellion starts in Sierra Leone
- 1995: Peace deal signed
- 1997: Elected president
- 1999: Liberia’s Lurd rebels start insurrection to oust Taylor
- June 2003: Arrest warrant issued
- August 2003: Steps down, goes into exile in Nigeria
- March 2006: Arrested, sent to Sierra Leone
- June 2007: Trial opens in The Hague
"I saw Mr Taylor about two days ago. He is in high spirits."
In May, judges rejected a request by Mr Taylor’s defence team to acquit him because of a lack of evidence.
The prosecution says Mr Taylor planned atrocities committed by Revolutionary United Front rebels during Sierra Leone’s civil war, which ended in 2002.
The RUF were notorious for using machetes to hack the limbs off civilians.
Mr Taylor is accused of passing guns to the RUF in exchange for diamonds from Sierra Leone.
His lawyers are expected to argue that he in fact tried to bring peace to the region and that there is no evidence directly linking him to the RUF.
Mr Taylor started Liberia’s civil war in 1989, before being elected president in 1997.
After a period of exile in Nigeria, he was eventually extradited from Liberia in 2006.
The trial, being held by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, was moved to the Netherlands from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, amid fears it could create instability in the country and neighbouring Liberia.</p
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