{"id":82175,"date":"2026-04-07T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=82175"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:32:19","slug":"30-days-detention-for-serbian-interior-ministry-member-suspected-of-war-crimes-in-kacanik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/30-days-detention-for-serbian-interior-ministry-member-suspected-of-war-crimes-in-kacanik\/","title":{"rendered":"30-day detention for Serbian Interior Ministry member suspected of war crimes in Kacanik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Basic Court in Pristina has ordered a 30-day pre-trial detention for the defendant A.D., on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of \u201cwar crime against the civilian population\u201d in 1999, in the village of Ivaje and surrounding villages in the municipality of Kacanik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement of the Prosecution of Kosovo, A.D., in the capacity of a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia in Ferizaj and a traffic police officer in the Kacanik region, acting in co-perpetration with other still unidentified members of Serbian police-military forces, on March 9, 1999, during an organized police-military operation against the Albanian civilian population, forced residents to leave their homes, which were then burned and destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cMeanwhile, 91 men were separated from around 400 men, women, elderly people, and children who had been gathered, and were taken to the police station in Kacanik. According to the request, 13 civilians were detained for the purpose of questioning, during which they were beaten and brutally tortured in an inhumane, physical and psychological manner by the defendant A.D., causing them severe bodily injuries in various parts of the body,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;the Prosecution\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basic Court in Pristina has ordered a 30-day pre-trial detention for the defendant A.D., on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of \u201cwar crime against the civilian population\u201d in 1999, in the village of Ivaje and surrounding villages in the municipality of Kacanik. According to the statement of the Prosecution of Kosovo, A.D., in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[5360,8007,5992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82178,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82175\/revisions\/82178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}