Two Indicted Over Kosovo War Case Secrecy Breach

“Both defendants are charged with the criminal offence of violating secrecy of proceedings, and one of these defendants was also charged with attempted obstruction of evidence or official proceedings,” the EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, said on Wednesday.Local media reported that the suspects are Kosovo journalist Milaim Zeka and businessman Rrustem Rukolli, the coordinator of the security team for the mayor of Skenderaj/Srbice, Sami Lushtaku, who is one of 15 defendants in the Drenica Group case.Zeka was initially questioned by international investigators in November last year.His lawyers said they believed that the journalist, who hosts the ‘Pa Rrotlla’ (‘The Blunt Truth’) programme on Kosovo’s public broadcaster, RTK, was quizzed because he broadcast a show in October 2013 in which protected witnesses in the Drenica Group case were interviewed.Among the former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters from the wartime guerrilla cell known as the Drenica Group who are accused of war crimes is Sylejman Selimi, Kosovo’s former security forces commander and its current ambassador to Tirana, as well as Skenderaj/Srbice mayor Lushtaku.They are accused of torturing and mistreating of prisoners at a KLA detention centre in Likovc/Likovac in 1998.They have all pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.