Self-Determination leader ordered house arrest 11 May 2007 | 13:27 | Source: Beta, AP *PRIŠTINA -- Self-Determination Movement leader Albin Kurti was released from prison and ordered under house arrest.
* A Priština District Court Judge passed the decision Thursday placing Albin Kurti under a 30-day home detention after spending 90 days in prison. Kurti was arrested on February 10 following Priština riots staged by the ethnic-Albanian Self-Determination Movement, in which two demonstrators were killed after UN police fired rubber bullets as the group's supporters tried to break through a police barricade to reach a government building in Priština. Albin Kurti is under investigation but has not yet been charged. A recent investigation report compiled by a UN prosecutor concluded that Romanian police officers serving with the UN were responsible for two deaths of ethnic Albanian protesters. Kurti and his group opposed a proposal drafted by the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari, saying it falls short of granting the province full independence by limiting Kosovo's sovereignty.
