Hashim Thaci

A European Union prosecutor has initiated a new probe into the human organ trafficking case, after five doctors in Kosovo were convicted of harvesting and selling kidneys to mainly Israeli recipients. On Tuesday, the EU mission (EULEX Kosovo) in the capital Pristina said eight more people are also being investigated for among others the criminal offences of organized crime, trafficking in persons, grievous bodily harm and abusing authorities, in the case of illegal organ trade. The EU...Read Full Story

A former Kosovo health minister and another Pristina official are among eight suspects in a new EU probe into a human organ trafficking case, a local daily reported Tuesday. Last Tuesday, a day after a European Union-led court in Kosovo convicted five doctors of harvesting and selling kidneys at a Pristina clinic, the EU’s Pristina mission announced the new probe without revealing the identity of the suspects. It said they were under investigation for “organised crime, trafficking in persons...Read Full Story

An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants. Former Kosovo health minister Ilir Rrecaj — who admitted during the trial that he knew that illegal kidney transplants were carried out at the Medicus clinic in Pristina in 2008, but denied covering them up — was acquitted. Prominent Pristina urologist Lutfi Dervishi got the stiffest term of eight years for “organised crime and human trafficking,” the judge...Read Full Story

Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency Henry Perritt (Auteur) Acheter neuf : EUR 32,67 (as of 12/21/2012 18:19 PST) 10 neuf & d'occasion a partir de EUR 27,51 (as of 12/21/2012 18:19 PST)(Consultez la liste Cadeaux les plus demandes dans la rubrique Eastern pour des informations officielles sur le classement actuel de ce produit.)Read Full Story

By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia held a trouble-free municipal election on Sunday despite recent ethnic and political unrest, in a boost for the Balkan country's hopes to start European Union entry talks later this year. In the past decade, various ballots in Macedonia have been marred by accusations of fraud and sporadic violence, mostly clashes between majority Macedonians and ethnic Albanians. "We've probably had the best and cleanest elections so far. We should all be proud...Read Full Story