Reports from Belgrade say a Yugoslav court in the southern town of Leskovac has charged 144 Kosovo Albanians with terrorism in connection with the killing and wounding of Yugoslav soldiers, policemen and civilians in Kosovo last year.

It is the largest group to be charged from among some two-thousand ethnic Albanian prisoners who were transferred to Serbia when Serbian troops withdrew from Kosovo last June.

Another Yugoslav court in Pozarevac in eastern Serbia has released ten ethnic Albanians for lack of evidence that they were involved in attacks against the Serbian police. A Human Rights group said the ten, who've been in prison for eighteen months, were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross and escorted back to their homes in Kosovo.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service