The Kosovo Supreme Court adopted a decision on Saturday to release five Serbs from the Kosovo-Morava region from detention facilities in Pristina and Gnjilane where they were kept since February 25 after they were arrested on suspicion that they undermined the Kosovo constitutional order.

Lawyer Miodrag Brkljac told Tanjug that the two months of detention for the five Serbs was replaced by the obligation to report to the nearest police station on a daily basis.

The Trial Chamber of the Kosovo Supreme Court which adopted the decision included one EULEX judge and two Kosovo judges, Brkljac said and confirmed that the five Serbs were released from prison detention facilities in Gnjilane and Pristina and have already arrived home in the Kosovo-Morava region.

The special units of the Kosovo police arrested a retired registrar and four employees of the Serbian Interior Ministry who worked on issuing passports and drivers' licences in the Gnjilane Police Department office in Vranje, southern Serbia, in 1999.

The arrestees were first placed in a 30-day detention by an international EULEX judge on suspicion that they undermined the Kosovo constitutional order so that the detention sentence could be extended by another two months upon expiry, and the Kosovo Supreme Court annulled the decision on Friday.