In today's court session, the three defendants were changed from detention to house arrest.

Those who had been in detention for 44 months.

The murder of one of the lawyers in the case a few days ago in Mitrovica, caused the hearing scheduled for Friday to be postponed to another day.

Judge: The court of the accused will replace the measure of detention with the measure of house arrest for the accused, due to the fact that the trial is an extensive process and contains the processing of many pieces of evidence, witnesses.

This decision of the trial panel in the case of the murder of the Serbian politician, Oliver Ivanovi., Brought joy to the three accused who have been in detention for 44 months now.

This decision was welcomed by the lawyer of the case, Musa Damati.

"It is crucial to emphasize that today the detention measure was replaced, which has existed in this case for more than 44 months and the detention measure has been replaced with the measure of house arrest," said Musa Damati, lawyer.

The murder of one of the lawyers in the case a few days ago in Mitrovica, Milan Bigovic, caused the scheduled hearing for Friday to be postponed to another day.

"The hearing scheduled to be held today has been postponed and this is because a few days ago unfortunately one of the lawyers who worked in this case was killed in tragic circumstances and also the other anonymous witness stated in the last hearing that he is endangered and feels threatened and refuses to testify in this criminal case ", said Musa Damati, lawyer.

The next hearing in the Ivanovic case will be held in late July.

The Special Court of Kosovo has filed an indictment against 6 persons: Nedelko Spasojevic, Marko Rosic, Dragisa Markovic, Zarko Jovanovic, Rade Basara and Silvana Arsovic, who are charged with "Involvement in the murder of Oliver Ivanovic".

In today's court session, the three defendants were changed from detention to house arrest, public television reports.