The General Court in Pristina ordered Zlatko Arsic to be detained for one month

The General Court in Pristina ordered one-month detention for Zlatko Arsic, a Serb who was arrested yesterday on suspicion of committing war crimes against the civilian population during the conflict in Kosovo in 1999, Gazeta Express reports.

"The Basic Court in Pristina ordered the measure of detention for the defendant Z.A. due to the well-founded suspicion that he committed a war crime," the Court announced.

As it is added, the judge for the preliminary proceedings had accepted as well-founded the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo to determine the measure of detention for the defendant, and the same measure of detention had been determined for the duration of one month.

"Unsatisfied parties have the right to appeal against that decision to the Court of Appeal, through the General Court in Pristina," the announcement of the General Court in Pristina added.

Lawyer Vasilije Arsic told Kosovo Online that he had not received the Court's decision yet, and that he could not confirm that news, but that if that was delivered to him soon, he would file an appeal to the Court of Appeal within 24 hours.

"If that's the case, the Court ordered detention without evidence. Everything we presented in court today was argued by us, while the prosecutor's side only said that Arsic had committed a war crime without any evidence," Arsic said.