Former Zvecan mayor acquitted of all charges, ruling final - lawyer

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Former Zvecan mayor Ivan Todosijevic, a Kosovo-Metohija Serb convicted by a Pristina basic court to one year in prison for inciting "hatred, discord and intolerance" has been acquitted of all charges by Pristina's supreme court, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

The ruling is final, Nebojsa Vlajic told Tanjug.

"It can be said that, at least in this case, law has triumphed because the court has acknowledged what we have been saying since the beginning - that this is about freedom of speech and that we have the right to talk about the past. We have the right to think whatever we want about past events, regardless of whether the majority likes that or not," Vlajic said, adding that he would see if he would launch proceedings on behalf of his client.

Todosijevic was charged after saying the Racak case was a fabrication that was used as a pretext for the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia.