A Belgrade court on October 4 ordered the release of Milan Radoicic, the top official of the main ethnic Serb political party in Kosovo, who had been detained in Serbia a day earlier for his involvement in a deadly confrontation with Kosovar police late last month.
The Birinchi Mai district court in Bishkek has resumed the high-profile trial of 27 politicians, journalists, and activists without 11 of the defendants present after they protested against a Kyrgyz-Uzbek border demarcation deal.